some of these are probs repeats of what other people have said or what u alr listen to!
indigo de Souza (personal fave songs: how I get myself killed, darker than death, 17)
Adrianne lenker (both big thief and solo stuff, fave songs: zombie girl, steamboat)
Samia (fave songs: something in the movies, kill her freak out)
fka twigs (not really rock but I’m getting carried away. sadness of her discog varies. magdalene is an important album to who I am. fave sad songs are water me and home with you)
skullcrusher (whatever fits together is one of my favorite songs ever)
mitski (bury me at makeout creek is perfect to me)
the album songs to break up to by ta-ku is more electronica than indie but it saw me thru some bullshit in the 2010s.
snail mail (my fave song is speaking terms)
the national is music for sad dads but theres some strong overlap there i think (fave songs: i need my girl, blood buzz Ohio, dark side of the gym)
ok im sorry this is so long!! I love sad music!!
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Sun June is my fav band of all time. Small following but deserving of so much more. I think Somewhere is my fav album of theirs but I’ve been enjoying their newer stuff as well. Lowkey want them to blow up??? But also guilty pleasure of mine is that they stay my hidden little secret???
Charlie Sztyk is one of my best friends and his music is so so so so so so so good. The Arc, Pt. 1 & 2 is such a huge album for me and I’ve listened through it at least a hundred times.
Seamstress is a band made by Gabi & Charlie Sztyk (she’s another best friend of mine, lol). Rumor has it she’s got new music coming out 👀 She’s like Lucy Dacus but at least 3X better. Weak Too is my fav song. I’ve cried to it often.
Squirrel Flower did a cover of ‘So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings’ that I played on repeat for a week straight. I ended up jumping into the rest of her discography and haven’t regretted it at all. Sad but not in a depressing way?
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Apr 9, 2024
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Tbh I’m coming out of a pretty depressing month, working a lot cuz im gonna be living alone for a bit—roomate who was the worst is finally leaving
This is what kept me sane while working doubles and watching the world pass:
Where I end and You Begin - Radiohead
(miserable, love the part about watching but not taking part, the effects of burnout let alone its haunting promise of nature eventually taking its land back)
21 - Cranberries
(I’m 21, learning that there will be lots I won’t get at least soon and that okay and I live in the context of all that which came before me)
Biscuit Town, Dumsurfer, It’s All Soup Now, Seaforth - King Krule
(He’s hot, miserable stuff, very hopeless but its the company that makes it easier)
The Flag is Raised - Bladee, Ecco2k
(Mf drain gang, very cerebral, spunky)
The Most Wanted Person - 100 gecs
(Huge gecs fan they are always on rotation for me, currently over here checking all the windows and blinds)
Persephone - Cocteau Twins
(been listening to them a lot recently, love the witchy vengeful sound of it)
One of These Days - Bedouine
(love her, its the little bit of hope we have to cling to right?)
Oct 2, 2024
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firstly sorry for your breakup they truly suck :( i think the way i initially cope after a full-on or situationship breakup is by making a playlist so here are all of the most cry-able breakup songs that i can think of rn!
i bet on losing dogs - mitski
drunk walk home - mitski
i don’t smoke - mitski
i want you - mitski (and a lot of others, she’s got all the best breakup music in my book)
night shift - lucy dacus
bad religion - frank ocean
ice is getting thinner - death cab for cutie
no one’s gonna love you - band of horses
lover, you should have come over - jeff buckley
flowers - marina
writer in the dark - lorde
the night we met - lord huron + phoebe bridgers
only when i - alice phoebe lou
the blackest day - lana del rey
dealer - lana del rey (warning that this is like, catastrophic category 10 breakup levels of sadness)
get gone - fiona apple
cellophane - fka twigs
silver springs - fleetwood mac (versatile as this one can be something to cry to or something to yell lol)
Oct 28, 2024
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Jun 15, 2024
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Put on the robe, turn on adult swim or whatever, crank the ac, eat a late night snack in one bed and sleep in the other. The freedom of impersonal liminal space.
Oct 21, 2024
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hundreds of thousands of times over
The context may be different but no emotion is completely new— i can cope
Aug 1, 2024