Breakup albums

What are your favorites? Personally I don't think anything can top Beck's Sea Change, but there are a few honorable mentions:

The Good Life - Album of the Year
The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
The Antlers - Hospice

 

This one will crush anyone with an already broken soul. I swear to god.

 

Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness. The best bands, best album.

 

Jimmy Eat World - Damage
Chad Perrone - Kaleidoscope
Coldplay - Ghost Stories
The Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt
La Dispute - Rooms of the House (I say it counts)
Turnover - Peripheral Vision

Some of my favorites from the last few years. Really, most of these are among my favorite albums from the last several years, period.

 

The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
Josh Ritter - The Beast in His Tracks
Hayes Carll - Lovers and Leavers
Mary Gauthier - Trouble and Love

 

Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
Right Away, Great Captain! - The Bitter End, The Eventually Home, and The Church of the Good Thief

 

the mountain goats - tallahassee