Songs that make you think of Oskar & Eli

[dongregg]

These are both spot on. I liked how the percussion kicked in at about 3 minutes into the first one.
Shifting gears, I love Pablo Neruda's "Love Sonnet XVII," although I should probably put it in "What are you reading?"

No te amo como si fueras rosa de sal, topacio
o flecha de claveles que propagan el fuego:
te amo como se aman ciertas cosas oscuras,
secretamente, entre la sombra y el alma.

I do not love you as though you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

[Serendipitous]

Literally anything from the album Realms by Holy Fawn feels endemic to Eli's experience. From the androgynous vocals to the themes of visualization of the self as a feral force of nature, themes of tragic love, wintery imagery, a sound that reminds me of bands like Of Monsters and Men.

"I want to fill my lungs with the smell of damp bark and your name
The taste of your avalanche and the cold winter tongue on my cheek
Is it that you stand so tall?
Bloodletting feral ritual, I painted in the snow a stave to guide you home
Can you see?" -Colossus

"Careful letting go, the silver fog that claws
Cursed undertow, come on, steal my flesh and bones
Crush me under storms
I know, I know, I'm so cold" -Foal

[InfectedFox]

The song Famine Wolf by the progressive metal band Between the Buried and Me. Felt like they were written about Eli.

Grind down.
Blind taste.
Dripping ideas turn against our will.
Swallow the chosen soul.

One Animal.
Once lived... for life.

Human mist rise.
Sweet devouring teeth are sharpened.
Swallow the chosen soul.

The fifth resonating host... sweaty palmed inside constant alert.
Blinking around the bubble of the paranoid.
We are all that's left. We will be enough?

Scour the earth. Turn the dirt red.
(This can't be our lifeline)
Anchored mind wind... across the fog.
We disgrace the pupils sight.
A homeless meat... the street markets replaced their souls.

Gipping our oldest thoughts... society has me out cold.
It has me out in the cold.
Move the flesh over this rotten bone.
One more day.
This can't be our lifeline...

Literally anything from the album Realms by Holy Fawn feels endemic to Eli's experience. From the androgynous vocals to the themes of visualization of the self as a feral force of nature, themes of tragic love, wintery imagery, a sound that reminds me of bands like Of Monsters and Men.

It's funny to go searching the forum and come across this, Holy Fawn is one of my favorite new bands I've recently discovered.