Photo by: Emily Bates

I would firstly like to put out the disclaimer that I’m not typically the kind of person to ask if an album is emotional, but for some reason, Noah Kahan does a good job making me cry.

I’ve seen Noah perform live before so I knew that going into this album that it was probably going to hit the nostalgia button, but dear lord I barely made it halfway through All my Love before the first tear fell. There’s just something incredibly comforting about this song, the sweet combination of the melody and the lyrics themselves and hearing it again reminded me of seeing him run around that stage and seeing the biggest grin on his face when he heard the crowd singing it back to him. This left me a bit in fear of how the rest of the album was going to go.

As soon as I hit Everything Everything I was feeling precisely like the meme of the girl crying to her mom. This song has a much stronger downbeat and gives the feeling of freedom.Orange Juice is a gorgeous song but also kind of crushes the soul at the same time. The best advice that I can give you is to not listen to it unless you’re alone. His lyricism is so detailed and does an incredible job of allowing you to visualize exactly what’s happening in the song.

I know that Noah has mentioned before that this album was written in a difficult time in his life (this makes sense with the number of sad songs) but this album really does a great job of making people in general not feel alone, which is a rarity I think.

I think that my very favorite song on this album is Homesick. The first time I heard it, it really hit different for me simply because by the time you hit your mid-twenties, a lot of us enter this phase of life where we really feel unsure about where we’re at in life as well as sometimes it just feels like your goals and dreams are just barely out of reach.

Dial Drunk is an incredibly relatable song. Most people you know have been through some kind of heartbreak and this song really highlights how hard it is to move on from that. It also seems to emphasize how hard it is to move on and how we become a different person when placed in this situation.

Call Your Mom is an incredibly sad song, and one that was very close to making me sob. A lot of people have experienced a depression that is so difficult to get out of. In that situation you really wish (or be glad) that you have someone who is there for you enough to make sure that you make it through it. Ugh this one broke my heart and also made me feel seen, a feeling that other people would agree with.

This in general was a phenomenal album and has songs that I’ll continue to listen to over and over again. I can’t possibly recommend this enough.