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Her music didn't click until I started really diving into the lyrics. And once it did, it became essential. There are a couple of low points in my life where it allowed me to process and move on. "In California" was eerily analogous to my situation, so having "Does Not Suffice" be an almost secret reprise eventually broke through the spiral I was experiencing. 

I know Divers wasn't as positively received, but "Time, as a Symptom" is one of her most beautiful songs. And I love that the album loops so that song transitions into the opening, creating an endless loop. Ys will always be my favorite, though. I can't imagine an album from any artist topping it. I do hope we get more music soon, but with her child, I imagine it will be a while.

ETA: Time, as a Symptom is a very Minotaur Hotel song. Like:

When cruel birth debases, we forget
When cruel death debases
We believe it erases all the rest
That precedes

The nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
Joy of life

Joy! Again, around–a pause, a sound–a song:
A way a lone a last a loved a long
A cave, a grave, a day: arise, ascend
(Areion, Rharian, go free and graze. Amen.)
A shore, a tide, unmoored–a sight, abroad:
A dawn, unmarked, undone, undarked (a god)
No time. No flock. No chime, no clock. No end
White star, white ship–Nightjar, transmit: transcend!