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Get Your Bleak On:15 Melancholy Masterpieces You Should Own

	Red House Painters by Red House Painters Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £5.79 The master of morosity, Mark Kozelek, with the band's finest work. 'Quiet in the corner, numb and falling through/Without you what does my life amount to?'
	Good Morning Spider by Sparklehorse Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.79 The kind of music you'd expect to be made by a guy who died on a stretcher and had to be brought back to life. 'Sometimes you feel you've got the emptiest arms in the whole world'
	Faith [Deluxe Edition] by The Cure Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £8.49 The most sombre of the Cure's early 80s trilogy of morbid anthems (along with Seventeen Seconds and Pornography). 'Moving through an unknown past/Dancing at the funeral party'
	And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out by Yo La Tengo Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £4.69 Though the lyrics can sometimes be quite chirpy and optimistic, the music is often subdued and swoonsome. 'We'll try and try, even if it lasts an hour....'
	Portable Galaxie 500 by Galaxie 500 Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £3.99 A fine cross-section of one of most understated bands of the past 20 years. 'I don't want to stay at your party/I don't wanna talk to your friends'
	Mercury by American Music Club Buy new: £7.78 / Used from: £1.90 Musically not as grim as their earlier efforts, but Eitzel still packs a punch- albeit a soft one. 'Lazarus wasn't grateful for his second wind/Another chance to see his chances fade like the dawn'.
	Long Division by Low Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £6.99 Hard to pick a best Low album, or even a 'most gloomy' one. A personal favourite nonetheless. 'The harm that it causes/Pours down like a faucet'.
	No More Shall We Part by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Buy new: £9.88 / Used from: £4.50 Most people would pick "Boatman's Call". I choose this simply because of the crooning violin on Hallelujah. 'And no more will I say, dear heart/I am alone and she has left me'
	American III: Solitary Man by Johnny Cash Buy used from: £4.30 Apart from 'Hurt' and couple of others, 'The Man Comes Around' is possitively jovial compared to his third effort in the American Recordings series. 'But did you ever notice the kinda thoughts I got?'
	Curtains by Tindersticks Buy used from: £9.98 Soaring swing sections cover some delightfully seedy jazz. 'Every time your lips meet mine, I think of her/But when her hands reach out, I think of you'
	Philophobia by Arab Strap Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £2.50 Falkirk's finest barfly balladeers, in a typically minimalist effort. 'Last night it starts with that Joan Osbourne Song/I hate it anyway, but you made it worse'
	Ask Me Tomorrow by Mojave 3 Buy used from: £5.99 Two words....Ex-Slowdive. They're better than that sounds. Countrified bliss. 'A bottle of wine is all I have to hold'
	Missionless Days by Kepler Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £3.16 Vastly underheard, underrated and understated. Perfection. 'You looked so right, wearing the straight pants/With stains of toothpaste stuck on your lips'
	Alice by Tom Waits Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £4.94 You can never go wrong with Tom, but as far as melancholia goes, this is the one. 'No one puts flowers on a flower's grave'
	Is a Woman [VINYL] by Lambchop Buy used from: £49.99 Yet nore gorgeous Nashville-Soul. The CD just oozes out of the player. 'This may not appeal to you/But I can hardly spell my name'