$VII: Aubade | Uncomposed: "Refractions of Light"$

I have wanted to leave home since I was thirteen years old, and the desire sings in my ribs even more strongly now.

Our lives are composed of cycles within cycles.

Dawn is portentous as any moment.

Songs for the Aubade Issue (a selection)

In the space where spring & song intersect, we’re thrilled to share a small playlist the Half Mystic team is spinning as we work to curate Issue VII.

Featuring Alvin Pang’s “Untitled”, “What It Is Like to Go Blind Slowly”, and “Humming (For Pooja)”, and Daniel Gallie’s “Coming Home”.

Aubades take place in liminal space; they are ephemeral and, like the perfect melody or the exquisite lyric, they are robust in the moment.

At fourteen, I watched the sun rise not as the beginning of a new day, but as a continuation of the night before, an endless monotony.

Preorders Are Open for Issue VII: Aubade

This new aubade issue speaks loud & clear of hope—& it does so with every knowledge of death as an old friend.

To Be Still

Somewhere I was still eleven, still spinning in a world of rabbit hearts and howling wolves, where music ran right next to me in the grass.

Featuring Erin Moran’s “For Matthew”, “When Angels Dress For Senior Prom”, and “For Jan”, and LYON’s “Le Jardin Zoologique de Nuit”.