The Band of Holy Joy What the Moon Saw

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I really should be in bed right now. I mean, I am in bed, but I should be trying to go to sleep; and I am not. Instead, I'm listening to the same song over and over again on my headphones and despite the fact I need to be up in 5 hours to take pupper out and make coffee before work, I instead want to keep listening to this same song.

I first found out about The Band of Holy Joy from their song "First Hour of the Day", and at the time I knew nothing else about them. However, it happened to be one of those same sort of songs, that I happened to listen to over, and over, and over again; whenever I was driving alone, or had headphones; or whatever situation would allow me to listen to the same song over and over again without bothering anyone else.

This morning, I again found myself digging through random music suggestions and what not, when a song from The Band of Holy Joy popped up on the sidebar of YouTube. I had tried to listen to as much as the band's music as I could find after finding "First Hour of The Day". However, frankly, I didn't find much; other than a few songs I really liked; but no full albums or anything that would indicate the band had a broad catalogue.

The song that popped up had the album artwork I recognized from the album "Manic, Magic, Majestic" that I had been curious about and had previously tried to find with no luck. The track was titled "What the Moon Saw" but was also preceded with "A3" so I knew it was actually off the album I had wanted to find. I had heard the title track before in my brief exploration of the band beforehand and was definitely fucking intrigued.

As soon as the song started I knew I was interested. It was beautiful, and then the vocalist's very distinct, emotional, British voice came in and it completed an odd ensamble which left me hanging on a thought that was "this song might really pick up". And then it did. But not just once. Twice. And the second time way harder than the first.

As I mentioned before, my previous research of the band didn't lead me to believe there was a ton of history or material from them. Tonight proved otherwise; when i tried to research some baseline facts about them. The band apparently has a very long history, and catalogue. But, I'm tired, and need to go to bed, and really just wanted to share this song with y'all.

I've been going through a weird time lately. Music helps me a lot. This song; I've probably listened to over 25 times since I discovered it at 10AM this morning. It's helped me a lot. I strongly suggest headphones. <3

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