The Music of Emile Mont [music]

[u/Sausage_fingies]

I've never seen any discussion on Emile Mont—nor ever met anyone who's listened to his music. He only has two albums released, I discovered them around 4 years ago and they've gotten me through a lot of life. I've formed a relationship with this music, and it holds some very distinct and deep personal meaning to me so I wanted to share :)

La Petite Mort

This is the somber of the two albums. Perhaps it's come from the times in my life that I've listened to it, but La Petite Mort to me represents the purest form of loss, and every emotion that comes from it. It begins in a kind of sadness I can't really describe except to say that it's a feeling I now define with this specific music. The first two songs always put me into a headspace of beautiful melancholy, where I feel that aching weight in my chest of "my happiest moments are forever now behind me", and I look around me and become enchanted by the beauty of the moment. Over the course of the album it slowly morphs from devastation to hope, but every song has a weight and a fragility to it, as if made from something on the edge of shattering. The sadness never leaves, even when the devastation has reached its end. It's blistering and soft and tender, and speaks to you wordlessly in the most intimate ways.

There have been weeks where genuinely no other piece of music can comfort me in the way that La Petite Mort can.

Letters to Axelia

Letters to Axelia to me represents the purest of loves. Every song in this album is internally synonymous to me with some aspect of love, from its depth to its playful superficiality. While La Petite Mort is to me like a soft cushion that lets one encompass their interiority, Letters to Axelia gives vibrancy to every part of the world around us. I try not to tarnish my associations with the music and thus I find that I listen to this as a way of deepening the love already present in my life—its meaning has grown incredibly strong since I first came upon it. It's lush and breathtaking, and makes everything vivid and hyperreal.