As it turns out, if you want to read Cormac McCarthy’s The Road in a few sittings, sometimes late at night, sometimes in the middle of the afternoon with light streaming through windblown leaves outside, and you want to listen to something perfectly suited to the brutal/beautiful words on the pages, you need look no further than Do Make Say Think. I just finished the book while listening to Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord is Dead, and there’s really nothing better I could have chosen as a soundtrack. In fact, I listened to their entire discography while working through the book (and nothing else), five albums in five or so sittings. It’s an experience I’m glad I created for myself.

And that book fucked with my head a little bit.

(See, Cat, I do still write in here sometimes.)