"This Illusion" Handmade Lyrics Poster By Lou Barlow
Recently I commissioned Lou Barlow to make a lyrics poster for the Sleepy Seahorse song “This Illusion” (from the 2023 album ‘Dearly Departed Dreams’). In addition to being my favorite musician for the past 30 years, I’ve always loved the way he writes his band names, song lists, lyrics, etc… I must not be the only one, because on his website barlowfamilygeneralstore.com he offers personalized handwritten lyrics, of any song. Obviously he mostly gets requests for Sebadoh and/or Lou Barlow song lyrics, but I took his “any song” offer a step further and had him scrawl one of my own.
The finished result is exactly what I was hoping for and also more beautiful than I could have imagined. Here’s a lyrics video for the song to showcase Lou’s amazing art: