The Emotionally Exhausting Album Thread • Page 2

Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle
Frank Sinatra - In The Wee Small Hours

Those two come to find first.

 

Blackstar.

 

Glassjaw's Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence

 

Oh, that's a good one. It's like I find something new in it every time I listen to it.

 

Home, Like Noplace Is There

 

I've yet to find an album that emotionally exhausts me and I'm not sure what that says about me. Though some of my favorite albums have been listed in here already.

 

Home, Like NoPlace Is There
Jane Doe
Sprained Ankle
Mean Everything To Nothing
Keep You

 

Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Was There
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell

 

I know that it's got this personal attachment because of it being Bowie's last album, but the album itself is about him facing mortality and it's just too much. I can't listen to it very often yet, even though I think it's my personal favorite of the year. It's so dynamic and interesting, even for his standards, but the context of it is still an open wound for me.

I'll also add Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan.

 

this one.

 

I listened to this last week. So sad.

 

Forgot about this one. Great pick

 

as cities burn - come now sleep
birds in row - personal war
bright eyes - lifted, fevers and mirrors, letting off the happiness
casiotone for the painfully alone - vs children
frameworks - small victories
RAGC trilogy
pedro the lion - control
pianos - lack long after
sioux falls - rot forever

 

Thursday - No Devolucion

 

told slant - still water (and probably the new album too)

 

Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Bright Eyes - Lifted
Rhye - Woman (this isn't a sad album but it was my ex's and my album)
Gregor Samsa - Rest
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
Red House Painters - Songs for a Blue Guitar

im sure there are others but i cant think of em rn

 

The Antlers - Burst Apart (this one actually hits me a lot harder than Hospice)
Tegan and Sara - The Con
Now, Now - Threads
Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It (or Learning)
Daughter - Not to Disappear

 

I remember when I was in high school, my cat that we had had since I was a baby was dying, and I laid beside her and petted her while listening to Lightness from Death Cab. That's one of my last memories of her and it was kind of like losing a family member, so that song means a lot to me.

 

Dave Hause - Devour

Really lyric-heavy record that hit home for me when I was going through a rough time a few years ago. Captures the vibe of going through your 20's and breaking out on your own while being dealt a bill of bad goods from the previous generation.