Scholarly articles and deep philosophical debates have uncovered the true trajectory: O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack, then Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up,” followed by Bon Iver’s For Emma…, and then “Home” by Edward Sharpe, Mumford and his Sons, etc.
aside from the fact that that song came out in 2012, toward the tail fucking end of the hipster era as most of us know it, the tastemakers were not puttin ppl on to that mumford and sons type stuff! don't let "home" having a moment 3 years earlier fool you!
Rue Euphoria: “Books without covers. Stories without endings…. Fairy tales filled with whimsy and childlike wonder...And that's the end. Or maybe it’s the beginning. Or maybe it's a little bit of both... A beginning and an end. A begending. So, the begend.”
For what it’s worth, the bookshop I work in has sold less than 30 copies of Yesteryear. Meanwhile, Theo of Golden, an objectively worse book, is the highest seller of the year. It’s the book your mom already bought and wants to talk to you about