DAY 10 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!

I’M NOT CRYING! YOU’RE CRYING!!!

Each day I’ll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite alternative & indie songs that meet the challenge!

  • kvn@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    Phil Elverum from The Microphones and Mount Eerie lost his wife to cancer and then wrote an album about it called A Crow Looked at Me. It is absolutely heartbreaking. Here’s the opener from the album.

    Real Death - Mount Eerie

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      1 year ago

      There’s plenty of sad songs in this thread but this is the “this isn’t cathartic it’s just devastating” kind of sad that can only come from real, deep, somber, visceral pain

      • kvn@midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        That’s a great way of putting it. It’s devastating and honestly difficult to listen to. But maybe someone needs to hear it so that’s why I posted it