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Heartbreak albums
Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In SpaceLadies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space by Spiritualized
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Dreamy, drug-addled, hopeless misery from which the listener never really recovers.
22 by The Black Heart Procession
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Songs that feel like crying in the darkness on a ship in a storm- black hearted indeed.
Tunnel of LoveTunnel of Love by Bruce Springsteen
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The Boss does synthy regret and some of his best lyrics ever.
After the Gold RushAfter the Gold Rush by Neil Young
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'Tomorrow, see the things that never come today.' Indeed. Neil sounds like he's never more than a second away from losing it.
Micah P Hinson & The Gospel of Progress...Micah P Hinson & The Gospel of Progress... by Micah P. Hinson
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'Close your eyes and don't you make a sound...' sings MPH, with a voice that seems hundreds of years old.
For Emma Forever AgoFor Emma Forever Ago by Bon Iver
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Sounds like exactly what happens when you leave your girlfriend and bed down in a log cabin for the Winter. Pure distilled sadness.
American WaterAmerican Water by Silver Jews
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Loneliness Alt-Country style.
No Shouts No CallsNo Shouts No Calls by Electrelane
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Like a movie about being dumped in Berlin with an amazing sountrack.
GoodbyeGoodbye by The Czars
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John Grant's astonishing baritone sings into an empty room and defies it to respond.
Songs of Love and HateSongs of Love and Hate by Leonard Cohen
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The title says it all.
The Boatman's CallThe Boatman's Call by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
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The doom-merchant strips it back and lays it bare for twelve of the most mournful and resigned hymns to lost love you'll ever hear. I want this album played at my funeral.