In the winter of 2008, I was a despondent college sophomore with bad hair trapped in a major I didn't care about. The one thing keeping me grounded was the opportunity to digest some new music on my 35 minute commute to school every day. Over the course of the season, I tried many albums and failed many times... but two of my selections caught me at the right place at the right time and have had a very important place in my life ever since - one of them was Band of Horses' Cease to Begin and the other was Lydia's Illuminate.
Somehow the winter of 2008 was five years ago, but every time I hear Illuminte, I get a huge wave of nostalgia and start thinking of those times when I was a student driving my car through the dirty snowbanks and crammed pedestrian crossings at UB. Both albums had huge, reverb-soaked guitars and a singer with a high, gentle voice. There was something "wintery" about those albums, and it was soothing to think that, even though I was having a rough season, there was still some sort of beauty to be found.
When I found out Lydia was going on a tour where they would play Illuminate start to finish, I knew I owed it to myself and to them to make the trek out to Rochester to see them play. The show is tonight at the Bug Jar - doors are at 6:00pm and it's $15/$17.
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