It Makes A Sound

This show is all about how music is used to make and maintain connections across time and through difficulties. I just reconnected with this podcast after getting Hey Deer stuck in my head for three days straight and I’m falling in love with it all over again. I plan on sharing it with my sister and boyfriend to make more connections through the music. It made a sound and I heard it.

I remember and I am Wim Feros.

I fell in love with this podcast years ago when season one came out, but fell off of it after that, as life happened, including my father suffering a massive stroke that nearly took him from us. I think if I’d listened to it prior to that, season 2 wouldn’t have hit in the same way it does now, but hit it does. Deirdre’s line “I’m sad” and the way her voice breaks just takes me right back to that awful moment in my own life, but in a way that feels connective and cathartic. It makes me feel not... more

This is a podcast that knows how create atmosphere. The sound design, script, and performances combine to make it feel as if you’re hearing an intimate recording from a real town not too far away your own. Rosemary Hills is a lovingly designed little world and its few inhabitants are utterly charming. It’s mysterious, funny, poetic, occasionally spooky, and all around heartwarming. (Just wait until you hear the music!) If you’re a fan of character-driven fiction, you will love It Makes A Sound! more

For all the warmth and comfort this show evokes, it’s easy to forget it takes place over a couple of weeks in a tiny gated community built around a golf course.

Cleaning out the attic is a sad and beautiful process, where you find that amazing childhood toy that once fed wild mental adventure, for a moment you’re back in that place, then you look at the faded decals and the spell breaks. A tape that carried you through middle school, only to be eaten by your neighbor’s boombox.

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As others have said, when I started this I wasn’t sure if I was going to like it. Deirdre, the MC and who we hear for the majority of the first couple eps, is very much trying to Put On a Show, and it’s not working. But as the layers get unpeeled, as her vulnerability becomes clear, and as we meet the other characters, this show clicks. It becomes something that wears its entire heart on its sleeve, awkwardly, vulnerably, bravely. It elevates those needing a hand, it cuts on the light for those ... more

Every time that opened plays: “IT MAKES A SOUND!” I get goosebumps.

After working full days at the hospital, getting to drive home listening to It Makes a Sound has been a highlight. After finishing the second season, I’m going to go back and listen all over again. Many thanks to all the creative minds who put their time and effort into this wonderful product!

been loving this podcast for a long time, and season 2 has really been hitting the spot lately. i love the nostalgia & all the feels in teenage crushes & joy in music & friendship. i have it permanently downloaded and am probably on my 5th re-listen of season 2 (couldn’t say how many times i’ve listened to season 1).

needless to say i highly recommend it. 💖

When this podcast first had a preview episode (the first episode) on another feed, I kinda wrote it off. Then there was a preview for episode 3, and it started to click. This is a podcast about the power of music and community. It's about caretakers, it's about family. It's about nostalgia, and memory, and hopes and dreams. It deals with big emotions, and can be a difficult listen at times as a result, but I cannot think of a single other podcast that moved me to tears out of joy. I cannot... more

The long-awaited second season has been a delight to dive into. It has lost none of its charm and somehow gained some.

Those Nightvale guys blew it when they didn’t keep this podcast in their network.

OKAY. I have to admit that this show didn’t hook me immediately, but when it did…it snagged me good. Its like this perfect memory from your childhood that you polish up all nice and shiny, so it glows so bright and blurs out all the sadness and all the little imperfections you felt in that moment. So you feel this urge to go back to a time or place that maybe never even existed. Yeah, that. It’s also about found families and unlikely connection and music and collaboration and loving people and g... more

Remember Wm Farros

Simply beautiful, honest and bursting with feelings and creativity. I am so thankgul for this podcast. Keep the amazing work. Keep finding the music

As Phil says in the newest episode as of me writing this, in season one it got better as time went on. I can’t claim to have any experience with what either Deidre or Emma are going through because I have no family in that situation but it really sucked me in. I almost felt like I had another family member in Emma. I remember buying the first album from bandcamp and I’m very much looking forward to the next one.

I fell in love with this series in season one. It was quirky, funny, sweet, with the sort of exquisite desparation that we experience from time to time in our lives that causes us to retreat into nostalgia. It spoke to me on a very personal level. I rolled with Dierdre and the band through tragedy and triumph and was really rootin' for the generational band to bring back the music. Then COVID hit and we were all left adrift. I thought perhaps it was all some beautiful dream that we awoke from to... more