Lyrics:
I rest my heavy head
Over your washed out jeans 
To look you in the eye
And the moment's colored white

The seaming of your world
You sew yourself
The patches you embrace
You’re the making of your own past

Past
You’re the making of your own past

The snowflakes gather out
the corners of the window sill
But your gaze is so alight
And now the moment’s colored

White
And now the moment’s colored

Like the rolling snow
Fleeting hillside
You’re the crystalline
You’re the past scars

(And now the moment’s colored)

White
And now the moment’s colored

I rest my heavy head
Over your washed out jeans 
To look you in the eye
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Produced and Written by Ellery Aschenbrenner & Erick Tanaka
Mixed by Ben DeSoto
Mastered by Alexander Wright

Look You In The Eye

Added to our Top 100 Indie Folk: https://soundcloud.com/indiefolkcentral/sets/top-100-indie-folk

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Song meaning:
"This song is about looking back at a relationship and acknowledging its faults but accepting that you did all you could."

Lyrics:

Here's my version of a broken heart
Give it up for yours
Please lets go from the start
At first we were flying
Living our days in the night

Loved you in the only way I could
Loved you in the ways I thought I should

Loved with my whole heart from so many miles away
Loved with my whole heart from so may miles away

By day we were living out our dreams
Too scared to know what they really could mean
Won't you dance to my beating heart
Dance to a love I had with you

Loved with my whole heart from so many miles away
Loved with my whole heart from so may miles away

Jessie Reid - Whole Heart

The Less We Talk

Two Little Lights

Camino

Father's Eyes

Crosses

Crosses (Bibio Rework)

You Won’t Be There

You Won't Be There

Canopy Hill

Music and lyrics by Lucy Clearwater
Produced by Tyler Chester
Engineered by David Boucher
Assistant engineers Luca Ruscica
Mixed by Tyler Chester
Mastered by James Krausse

Vocals & guitar - Lucy Clearwater
Featured vocal - Hayden Everett
2nd guitar - Sean Watkins
Piano - Tyler Chester
Bass - Solomon Dorsey
Drums - John Fatum
Pedal steel - Drew Taubenfeld
Cover photo - Joey Schultz
Recorded at Bell Choir Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California

Hold On Me (with Hayden Everett)

Music Video: https://youtu.be/7drVeag0eak?si=wCvYeLXp27caInBi
Stream: https://www.submithub.com/link/dellwood-the-animals

With The Animals, Dellwood steps further into darker, more mysterious territory — a brooding folk song that feels both intimate and otherworldly.

Built around a simple acoustic guitar progression, the track is carried by haunting vocal layers in a lower range than most Dellwood recordings to date. The lyrics unfold like fragments of memory and dream — “Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground” — evoking both disorientation and belonging. It’s a meditation on longing and self-searching, on being caught in a mental maze but trusting the wrestle will find purpose.

“The Animals felt like a personal paradox,” says Chris Bartels. “I wanted to capture the feeling of being lost in doubt while still grounded in something familiar. It’s vulnerable and cryptic, but also strangely hopeful.”

The production leans into both nostalgia and experimentation. Folk roots are present in the acoustic core, while experimental textures emerge from recording layers in different keys, then pitching them back — creating ghostly shadows beneath the song’s surface. The result is a track that feels familiar and human, yet unsettlingly spectral.

The Animals expands Dellwood’s evolving palette: cinematic folk at its core, but open to the edge of the unknown — a voice both comforting and haunting, finding beauty in the wrestle between fragility and purpose.

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Press Highlights for Dellwood (Year One):

• “Soul-stirring indie-folk… raw and intimate strums wonderfully juxtaposed with cinematically produced vocal layering.” – Up To Hear Music

• “Delicate harmonies radiate raw emotion and soul… a hauntingly personal atmosphere.” – Caesar Live N Loud

• “Explores the weight of family through a haunting narrative… lyrics ache with unspoken words.” – Purple Melon

• “An intimate slice of folk… emotional power and sincerity reminiscent of early Bon Iver.” – We All Want Someone To Shout For

• “A warm, atmospheric soundscape… tackling life’s challenges and finding solace in shared vulnerability.” – Purple Melon

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LYRICS

I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals

Whispers knit, your cryptic verse
The night we broke, with starry guise
Tempered dust, I’ve been sculpted out
I washed it clear, with blood-red eyes

I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals

It’s brighter now, but only from the snow
The coffee, strong, forgotten on the table
Now back to dirt, the woodlands’ pull 
I’ve tasted all, the timeless fate, betrayal 

I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground

I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground

The Animals

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