Batu Hunca

I keep coming back to this one.

“End of Beginning” by Djo has that rare quality where a song sounds like a memory you haven’t made yet. It’s warm and unhurried — synths drifting over a steady pulse, Joe Keery’s voice sitting right in the pocket between nostalgia and acceptance.

He wrote it about leaving Chicago for Los Angeles, about being so focused on what comes next that you forget to notice the good thing you’re already standing inside. There’s a line where he talks to his sister Caroline, and she tells him he’s going to be fine. Something about that lands every time.

I think anyone who’s ever left a place — or is about to — knows this feeling. You can’t see the shape of a chapter until you’ve turned the page.