“As the Footsteps Die Out Forever” by Catch 22. Genre is ska punk. It’s about the loss of a family member.

Hurt, the cover by Johnny Cash

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Rabbit in Your Headlights by Unkle

Something I Can Never Have, NIN

Literally any 16th century nocturne.

tv on the radio - blind

motion picture soundtrack - radiohead

entire discography of godspeed you black emperor but e.g. dead flag blues

pretty much anything grizzly bear did before 2007 but e.g. he hit me

Ben Howard - Esmerelda, anything from Portishead, Red House Painters, Sofa Surfers

This is art/prog/jazz rock molded to perfection:

https://youtu.be/hCU_lScCpAM?si=6q-LbBsj1imw008_

Check out this song by them but feel free to listen to their entire albums. Start with Land Animal, Say So, or You Know What They Mean if you like the above song.

I’m not lighting a fuse with this, am I? O_O;

Anyway, Routine by Steven Wilson and Losing It by Rush are two big candidates. Remove all sharp objects from the immediate vicinity before you listen to them.

Actually, forget that. Songs about naval disasters (The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot, At the Harbor by Renaissance, The Wreck of the Hesperus by Procol Harum) are somber in tone but won’t make you feel despondent afterward. They’re like rye bread… a little rough and dark, but hearty and filling and ultimately cleansing in the end.

Iron & Wine - “The Trapeze Swinger”

IYKYK

Further - VNV Nation

Anything by Michael Buble.

mountain goats, up the wolves

The entirety of Let It Come Down by Spiritualized. It’s an album all about the apathy, misery, bliss and beauty that accompanies heroin addiction. It’s painfully beautiful music.

The Beths in general for me lately. I like Expert in a Dying Field, Scilence in Golden, and Knees Deep. But their older stuff are great too.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GtZbD_Yk3Ys&pp=ygUcdGhpcmQgZXllIGJsaW5kIHNsb3cgbW90aW9uIA%3D%3D

An Introduction To The Album by The Hotelier

Speedy Ortiz - No below

The Myth is Real Let’s Eat - Jello Biafra and Nomeansno

Eliot Smith - Either/Or

https://youtu.be/OADhKjNz8mI?si=NYLMFR14Ma0aSaj3

This album, but specifically the second song if you have to pick only one

https://open.spotify.com/album/4zyz5638QQykrPQcmpcrsa?si=PfRXD90GS2SdSLdGER94OQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4zyz5638QQykrPQcmpcrsa