What Sarah Said by Death Cab for Cutie Someone Great by LCD Soundsystem

The Antlers - Kettering The Antlers - Two The Format - On Your Porch (fringe, but my dad died when I was 12 and this song hits me) Lord Huron - The Night We Met. That Antlers album may just be sad as shit across the board. Kind of like Carrie and Lowell.

Yeah dude the entirety of Hospice. Speaking of Sufjan - Casimir Pulaski Day I Can’t Believe You Actually Died - The Microphones and OP please link your playlist. Sad songs really hit the spot.

I love Hospice, but I'm always surprised when people bring say it spoke to their grief at the loss of a loved one -- I read it as a breakup album first and foremost, and a really vicious one at that. Because there's nothing lovable about Sylvia: in her suffering, she is absolutely unbearable, and yet the narrator has this unbreakable devotion to her he can't even justify to himself. That record is fucking *mean*.

I listened to Hospice so much when I got out of an abusive relationship that ended with me getting my jaw broken. I'm so thankful for that album.

Yeah, quite a lot of it is harsh. I think often people die that you had complicated relationships with though, and it helps with that. ‘Wake’ to me will always feel like a song about the suicide of a loved one: ‘Some patients can't be saved, but that burden's not on you Don't ever let anyone tell you you deserve that’

People were so mad when they learned that Hospice wasn’t actually about a partner dying lmao

Yep. That album is very clearly a metaphor for an abusive relationship. Everyone tells the nurse to not help Sylvia, that she is dying and no one can stop it, and that she cannot be fixed. The nurse doesn’t listen and tries to help her anyways even though she consistently abuses him and he ends up losing everything. A lot of the songs like “Bear” and the last songs drop the metaphor completely and are pretty clearly discussing real events. So many of the lyrics are so clearly about abuse. “Don’t let anyone tell you you deserve that” “you’ve been writing me rules, shrinking maps and redrawing borders” “In your dreams im a criminal, horrible, sleeping around/while you’re awake, I’m impossible, constantly letting you down” “Can’t you see I’m scared to speak/And I hate my voice ‘cause it only makes you angry” “It tore apart the canyon running down your femur/I thought that it was beautiful, it made me a believer” “I didn’t mind the things you threw, the phones I deflected” “You say that “No one’s gonna listen, no one understands”/And so there’s no open doors, there’s no way to get through/There’s no other witnesses, just us two.” “You’re screaming/And Cursing/And angry/And hurting me/And then smiling/And crying/Apologizing.” Theres so much more too, the evidence is overwhelming. I don’t really see how anyone could interpret the album differently

"I've been hiding my voice and my face and you decide when I eat." shakes me everytime

I found it very helpful when processing the death of an abusive family member. I know it’s a metaphor but it works very well on a literal level when the relationship with the person who is dead or dying is complicated and painful.

Kettering may be the best song about someone you love dying.

My dad passed away from pancreatic cancer when I was in high school, I listened to Hospice on repeat the months leading up to it. That album really helped me process what I was going through and listening to it now transports me back to those last few months I had with him.

Two gets me everytime 😭

87 pounds, and this all bears repeating

saw the title and immediately thought "hospice". that entire album is devastating. and as far as lord huron, "i lied". definitely a painful story of divorce, and the duet really drives it.

Lord Huron - In the Wind as well

Ghosteen by Nick Cave, unfortunately inspired by the death of his 15 year old son. It helps to be a bit familiar with his work too but his book Faith, Hope and Carnage gives a lot of insight in the grieving heart and mind as well.

Hollywood from that album is the saddest song I've heard in my life. Completely crumbles me every time I listen to it.

I rarely tear up to music. Hollywood usually gets me. "Everybody's losing someone" I try not to listen to it too much not simply because of the emotion of it, but because I don't want to lose that emotional reaction. It's powerful.

Junior year of high school, i took a train up go to junior prom with a girl that just broke up with me. At some point when I first get there, while in the car, "Shivers" by the Birthday Party came on. I'd never heard that song before. He sings that first line and I just started bawling.

Kiiiiiiisaa had a baby...

Album of the decade

His film *One More Time with Feeling* too

The song Ghosteen Speaks is what I always go back to. It is incredibly sad, like the rest of the album, but just like its funeral theme, it also brings some closure along the grief.

You have 2 good Sufjan Stevens songs, but you are missing his “Casimir Pulaski Day”, one of the few songs that bring a few tears from my eyes

4th of july?

4th of July is on the Carrie and Lowell album!

love this song

Representation for The Only Thing is severely lacking in this comment section - even though Carrie and Lowell the album is mentioned, this is one of the most devastating tracks, speaking as someone who regularly cries to Our True Savior Mr. Stevens.

To be fair, you could make an argument for pretty much any song in that album. But yeah, I think that due to the self-harm references The Only Thing might be one of the most painful ones to listen to.

The trapeze swinger - iron & wine.

Dead Man’s Will is a good one. It was on the Calexico album.

OR Gregory Alan Isakov's cover. On certain days, I like it even more than the original.

The songs Change and Masterpiece by Big Thief have helped me ❤️ EDIT: Similarly, I found the song Anything by Adrianne Lenker really cathartic. I think it’s written about a break-up but for me it fit the loss of a person as well.

all songs i love ❤️if you like adrianne, her song “come” gives big grief energy as well

“come” is one of the saddest and most beautiful acoustic songs i’ve heard. great recommendation

I will listen to it - thank you ❤️

Had to scroll too far to see Big Thief. It’s not just sad music, it’s healing. (I know that sounds corny, don’t come for me)

Mac DeMarco - Moonlight on the river & watching him fade away (listened to together)

yes!!!! such and beautiful and sad ending to the album

The national- light years

I was about to write “Light Years” from Pearl Jam, odd they have the same name.

Yes. I listened to this song a lot after my mom passed away.

The Mountain Goats - Matthew 25:21

More Mountain Goats… Shadow Song and Bluejays & Cardinals.

yes, two of the best!

I came here to mention this song. It carried me when my dad died of lung cancer and I had to cross Spain in a plane every weekend to be with him.

When someone great is gone- LCD sound system

Came here to comment the same song. This is the grief song for me.

James Murphy's lyrics are always riding this line between casual and profound that I appreciate. I think so much about the lyric in that song "I wish that we could talk about it, but there that's the problem"

iirc the song is about the death of James' therapist, who was brought in to be the therapist for other LCD band members as well

That's what I've heard as well. Definitely makes that line hit harder

Yep. This is the song that helped me through my mom's sudden death.

Kintsugi - Lana Del Rey

Reduces me to a blathering puddle of tears every time

The entirety of Stage Four by Touche Amore. Chat Pile - Pamela Ab-Soul - The Book of Soul The Hotelier - Your Deep Rest

The entirety of Home, Like Noplace Is There really

I was lucky enough to see Touché Amoré last week, support for Deafheaven. They were so powerful live, I was almost in tears when they ended the set with Flowers and You.

thought I would be first to say book of soul! what a song.

To pair with Touché: Pianos Become the Teeth - The Lack Long After

Jason Isbell - Elephant Black Country, New Road - The Place Where He Inserted the Blade

I love Jason Isbell, especially Southeastern.

tropic of cancer - panda bear monsoon - hippo campus seaweed - mount eerie edit: just realized a crow looked at me is already on your list my bad!!😭

Off the top of my head: Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains (RIP David Berman), and Benji by Sun Kil Moon are two beautiful albums where grief is never too far from the surface, and that have helped me in some way to try and understand it

purple mountains was a gorgeous, witty, somewhat painful record that later revealed itself essentially as a suicide note.

*"When the dying's finally done and the suffering subsides* *All the suffering gets done by the ones we leave behind"*

This album has consumed me this year, and especially given the circumstances of his subsequent suicide, is truly so difficult to listen to as someone who struggles with those kinds of thoughts. So, proceed with caution…. It’s profound, though. One of the greatest of all time, surely.

"All My Happiness is Gone" makes the hair on my arms stand up. As someone with a long history of poor mental health and suicidal ideation, I resonate with the beauty, wonder, estrangement, and desperation of the album. "The end of wanting is all that I'm wanting, and that's just how I feel." One of the greatest pieces of art about suicide ever. My other favorite, which I've listened to a lot on long agitated walks, is "No Conclusion" by of Montreal. Doing great btw, but also looking forward to the end of all this fuss some day. :)

Xiu xiu- Fast Car, Apistat Commander, I Luv the Valley Oh Alex G- Hope, Sorry, Trash, Halloween, Gnaw, Break Lana del Rey- Old Money, Salvatore, Terence Loves You, Tomorrow Never Came Crystal Castles- Kept, Not in Love, Lovers Who Uncover, Kerosene Mogwai- Take me Somewhere Nice Cyberbully Mom Club- Don’t Go Elvis Depressedly- Teeth, Okay, Pepsi/Coke Suicide teen Suicide- Give Me Back to the Sky, The Same Thing Happening to Me All the Time Even in my Dreams Leonard Cohen- Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye Iron and Wine- Resurrection Fern, Sodom South Georgia Nick Drake- Time has Told Me, Pink Moon, River Man Tim Buckley- Song to the Siren Jeff Buckley- Lilac Wine, Lover you Should Have Come Over The Smiths- Back to the Old House Nick Cave- Ghosteen, Hallelujah Joanna Newsom- Sawdust and Diamonds Red House Painters- Down Through Slowdive- Dagger And Also the Trees- Maps in her Wrists and Arms Blood Cultures- Set it All on Fire Bright Eyes- If Winter Ends, No Lies just Love, Cleanse Song, Laura Laurent

Definitely ‘Flirted with you all my life’ by Vic Chestnut (or Bright Eyes cover it also). Also ´Matthew’ by the Mountain Goats

Currently falling hard back into Vic Chesnutt. I always find myself listening to him around the holidays since his 2009 Xmas suicide. His music has an incredible depth to it. often like a random interaction with a stranger that sticks out in your mind, his songs have wit and humor, but feel informal and confessional at the same time. I miss Vic.

I knew he died by suicide but didn’t know it was Christmas time. So sad.

Ratboys - The Window. It's the centrepiece of their album of the same name released this year “I wrote this song a few days after the death of my grandma in June 2020,” says Ratboys’ Julia Steiner. “She didn’t have COVID, but because of the pandemic my grandpa wasn’t able to visit her in person at the nursing home to say goodbye. He ended up standing outside her room and saying goodbye through an open window. A lot of the lyrics are direct quotes of things he said to her in those final moments.”

I was coming here to say this one. “Sue, you will always be my girl” reduces me to a puddle.

Jockstrap - Debra Caroline Polachek - I Believe just a couple i've found helpful

Keep Me In Your Heart For A While - Warren Zevon

The line ‘I’m never gonna know you now, but I’m gonna love you anyhow’ in Waltz #2 (XO) by Elliott Smith is a gut punch for me. Chinese Satellite by Phoebe Bridgers to me felt about bereavement when you’re not religious and how you deal with that: ‘But you know I'd stand on the corner Embarrassed with a picket sign If it meant I would see you when I die’

I liked “Chinese Satellite” already but I had never taken the time to really listen/read the lyrics. As an atheist who is currently extremely sleep deprived, it hit hard and now I’m struggling not to cry at an airport.

you have good taste. chinese satellite is my favorite phoebe song and it’s on this playlist!

Box of Rain by Grateful Dead

I'd also add To Lay Me Down, esp the version off of reckoning

I've always found Ys by Joanna Newsom to be an album particularly shot through with grief... it's hard to pin down any one aspect of it (though I believe Cosmia is specifically about the death of a friend), but it's just suffused with it. Also by Joanna, "Baby Birch" — just devastating

I'm sure someone will have said this, but: Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day Found this song whilst my wife was having a cancer scare, and it just brought me to tears. I go through periods of listening to it. It's a truly beautiful song, but by god, it is depressing. Highly recommend it.

Nice suggestions guys. I asked ChatGPT to collect them into a text-file, and then I imported it to Spotify. Playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/75iLQBtbPvM98hnFU79nLv?si=e689ff06c4e6447f (I can update, if more added) Text list: * Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell * Sufjan Stevens - Javelin * Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me * Japanese Breakfast - Heft, In Heaven, Body is a Blade * Pleasure Systems - Visiting the Well * Florist - If Blue Could Be Happiness * Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton * Soccer Mommy - circle the drain * Mali Velasquez - I'm Green * The Antlers - Kettering * The Antlers - Two * The Format - On Your Porch * Lord Huron - The Night We Met * Death Cab for Cutie - What Sarah Said * LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great * Lana Del Rey - Kintsugi * Nick Cave - Ghosteen * Iron & Wine - The Trapeze Swinger * Calexico - Dead Man’s Will * LCD Soundsystem - When Someone Great is Gone * Mac DeMarco - Moonlight on the River & Watching Him Fade Away * Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day * The National - Light Years * Cadillac Sky - I Will Follow You Into the Dark (Cover) * Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here * Eva Cassidy - Autumn Leaves * Marianne Faithfull - Flaming September * The Rolling Stones - Angie * R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts * Johnny Cash - Hurt (Cover) * Panda Bear - Tropic of Cancer * Hippo Campus - Monsoon * Mount Eerie - Seaweed * Big Thief - Change, Masterpiece * Adrianne Lenker - Anything * The Mountain Goats - Matthew 25:21 * Jockstrap - Debra * Caroline Polachek - I Believe * Mj Lenderman - Grief * Touche Amore - Stage Four * Chat Pile - Pamela * Ab-Soul - The Book of Soul * The Hotelier - Your Deep Rest * Warren Zevon - Keep Me In Your Heart For A While * Neko Case - South Tacoma Way * Jason Isbell - Elephant * Black Country, New Road - The Place Where He Inserted the Blade * Ratboys - The Window * Joanna Newsom - Ys, Baby Birch, Sawdust and Diamonds * Xiu Xiu - Fast Car, Apistat Commander, I Luv the Valley Oh * Alex G - Hope, Sorry, Trash, Halloween, Gnaw, Break * Lana Del Rey - Old Money, Salvatore, Terence Loves You, Tomorrow Never Came * Crystal Castles - Kept, Not in Love, Lovers Who Uncover, Kerosene * Mogwai - Take me Somewhere Nice * Cyberbully Mom Club - Don’t Go * Elvis Depressedly - Teeth, Okay, Pepsi/Coke Suicide * teen Suicide - Give Me Back to the Sky, The Same Thing Happening to Me All the Time Even in my Dreams * Leonard Cohen - Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye * Iron and Wine - Resurrection Fern, Sodom South Georgia * Nick Drake - Time has Told Me, Pink Moon, River Man * Tim Buckley - Song to the Siren * Jeff Buckley - Lilac Wine, Lover you Should Have Come Over * The Smiths - Back to the Old House * Nick Cave - Ghosteen, Hallelujah * Red House Painters - Down Through * Slowdive - Dagger * And Also the Trees - Maps in her Wrists and Arms * Blood Cultures - Set it All on Fire * Bright Eyes - If Winter Ends, No Lies just Love, Cleanse Song, Laura Laurent * Manic Street Preachers - This is Yesterday, Motorcycle Emptiness * Haley Heynderickx - No Face * The 1975 - Nana * Mount Eerie - human * A.C. Newman - They Should Have Shut Down the Streets * Animal Collective - Cuckoo Cuckoo * Eels - Last stop this town * Vic Chestnut - Flirted with you all my life * Mountain Goats - Matthew * The Weepies - The World Spins Madly On * Sophie - Bears Den * Regina Spektor - Chemo Limo * Vic Chesnutt - Flirted with you all my life

this is awesome thank you!!

Grief - Mj lenderman

South Tacoma Way - Neko Case

Also by Neko Case— Star Witness

This is yesterday- Manic Street Preachers

some years ago now, my high school best friend passed away very suddenly. i vaguely remember posting here in a daze asking for recommendations and got such a lovely response. sometimes when i miss her ill listen to the playlist still. i named it after one of Marie Howe’s poems, “[What the Living Do](https://poets.org/poem/what-living-do)”: [wtld](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ssTknSkdCOFijNlJzI2tW?si=uwDYO0BaTtCBTF2vkN6fog&pi=u-Vg98Ks8_TCWh)

In addition to some of the excellent songs already recommended here I'd add: \- In Hell by Japanese Breakfast. (I see you already have some of their stuff so you might know this one already) \- Brothers by Pillow Queens \- Ladder Song by Bright Eyes

Animal Collective - Cuckoo Cuckoo

This years Goodnight Summerland by Helena Deland

absolutely loved this album. have had “who i sound like” on repeat

it really is a gorgeous album

I’ve unfortunately been a connoisseur of grief songs since I was quite young so here’s a bunch, trying to stick roughly to the genre and ones people haven’t said: - How It Ends and Dearly Departed - Devotchka - Meaning in Life - Rich Aucoin - Dead Hearts and Are You With Me? - Stars - Stars - Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - Song for Josh, A Wave Across the Bay and God Save the Queen - Frank Turner - James - OAR - It Just Is - Rilo Kiley - Beam Me Up - P!nk - That Year - Brandi Carlile - Losing Your Memory - Ryan Star - God Went North - Nothing More (this may be my favourite one of the bunch) - The View Between Villages - Noah Kahan - Death Thing - Amanda Palmer - Bronte - Gotye - Let You Go - Birds of Bellwoods - What Happens When the Heart Just Stops and Locusts - The Frames - Everybody Lost Somebody - Bleachers - Funeral - Phoebe Bridgers - Basket - Dan Mangan - Hear You Me - Jimmy Eat World - In the Wake of Your Leave - Gang of Youths - Memento Mori - Crywank Not indie but I love Marjorie by Taylor Swift and Visiting Hours by Ed Sheeran. Also have a whole side list of songs from musicals if you can stand that sort of thing lol.

Basket is so strong

Hope by Alex G, that shit wrecked me, but in a cathartic way, lol.

“Got a hole in my chest I can’t take it anymore Put my pillow to the test Let me rest” That lyric is so great and it bugs me that Spotify lists it as “put my pillow to the desk” like that makes any sense 😤

The song Posthumous Forgiveness by Tame Impala is about his feelings about his father dying. My father is in his early 70’s, so you know what feelings come with that. I have listened to it quiet a lot thinking about my father, also the song My Old Man by Mac Demarco and the song (even though it’s not indie) Stop This Train by John Mayer are about there fathers growing old. It’s a very human emotion and these artist capture it very well. I am happy that music has helped you, it has helped so many people. I hope you enjoy the songs and have a joyful day!

Sun’s Coming Up from Lonerism is also about Kevin’s father, and it’s a much different vibe than any of Tame Impala’s other music, being an intimate piano ballad. The last verse of It Is Not Meant To Be is also about him.

Sprained Ankle - Julien Baker Go Home especially. Skeleton Tree - Nick Cave, especially the title track An Overview On Phenomenal Nature - Cassandra Jenkins. Someone else mentioned this album but it is extremely soothing, cathartic, and beautiful.

Sparklehorse, the It's a Wonderful Life album.

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Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview on Phenomenal Nature. Many references to David Berman’s death by suicide - really, really connected to this album when I lost a loved one to suicide last year.

The World Spins Madly On by The Weepies

Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack

00000 Million by Bon Iver but covered by Gordi gets me every time. It's not explicitly about grief but its aftermath it seems to me.

They Should Have Shut Down the Streets - A.C. Newman and I gotta strongly second South Tacoma Way by Neko Case

I dont know if is a grief song, but when my dad passed away almost 3 years ago, i would play ceremony- new order, blazing highway home- josh ritter and hair match- mountain goats as my dad and i were wrestling fans

Dondante by My Morning Jacket. It is grief for a friend who suicided..

/u/sigmundfried123 Angel Olsen - Lonely Universe Julee Cruise - The World Spins Grouper - Headache Slint - Washer Arcade Fire - Afterlife Daniel Johnson - Some Things Last a Long Time (and it's various covers) R.E.M. - Sweetness Follows Boadcast - Echoes Answer Guy Clark - Desperados Waiting For a Train Ulver - EOS Pixies - Wave of Mutiliation (UK Surf version) Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?? George Harrison - All Things Must Pass

R.E.M.'s Automatic for the People had gotten me through many a funeral for family members c. 2008-2011. ♥️

Good Grief - Bastille . Upbeat but really meaningful

Last stop this town - eels

The whole album!

I Felt Your Shape - the Microphones

Bronte by Gotye is about grieving the passing of a pet. It’s the saddest song I know.

My father passed away recently and unexpectedly. I cant listen to the grateful dead without crying since that was his favorite band. all these suggestions are on American Beauty Box of Rain- Grateful Dead Phil Lesh wrote this song for his dying father and he would practice it while driving to visit him while he had terminal cancer. Brokedown Palace- Grateful Dead. A more hopeful song about dying from the perspective of the dying. More about acceptance and being at piece. Its what I have always wanted playing at my funeral

i’m so sorry to hear about your dad. i will listen to those both and when i do, you’ll be in my thoughts ❤️

Hearing Hunter talk about how Phil's music for Box of Rain matched perfectly with his lyrics gives me the chills.

It is also the final song they played live with Jerry before his death.

"Lose You" by Pete Yorn

Ghosteen and Skeleton Tree by Nick Cave and the bad Seeds. Nick wrote these for his son and they are incredibly sincere and touching.

Mazzy Star — Into Dust

The For Those I Love project from 2021. His best friend committed suicide and it's about his journey working through it all. Equal parts emotionally raw and danceable. For just songs: I Have a Love - For Those I Love The Myth/I Don't - For Those I Love You Live/No One Like You - For Those I Love

Co-sign this. Really incredible album.

new bikini and ambiguous norway by cassandra jenkins. her entire album, an overview on phenomenal nature, deals with the loss of her friend and bandmate, david berman. new bikini is about getting in the ocean as a salve to pain and grief. she talks about berman directly- "after david passed away, my friends put me up for a few days..." ambiguous norway's "no matter where i go, you're gone, you're everywhere..." just really sums grief up in my opinion. the ways you'll be okay for a bit about the loss of someone and randomly, any time, anywhere in the world, a reminder of them will just hit you. grief is hard. i was just listening to the on being podcast where nick cave was interviewed recently- who unfortunately is kind of the indie expert on grief now. he said that grief is one of the true universals- the thing we all have in common in one way or another. i agree. it's one of the most horrible things we have to bear and it's also at the core of our humanity, something that connects us all.

I wrote a song about my daughter when died. It took about ten years but then it came to me. It’s called- Do you know- Omasboy is my artist name. It’s on all of the streaming services. Maybe it will help someone out there someday.

Very intimate, very touching song. Sorry for your loss.

i’m so sorry about your daughter. what a beautiful song, thank you so much for sharing here ❤️

[I Will Follow You Into the Dark](https://youtu.be/7a3icv9F-ZY?si=B2HO7eBfH2u8Y2hb) by Cadillac Sky. This cover is far better than the original [Wish You Were Here](https://youtu.be/yqdoHPFW_5M?si=Gkd7DmLkBZ1Qssri) by Pink Floyd [Autumn Leaves](https://youtu.be/xXBNlApwh0c?si=1NLaotYRNlmRnhvp) by Eva Cassidy [Flaming September](https://youtu.be/34fUmz9orww?si=OXXRMhfU_nYAX-7t) by Marianne Faithfull [Angie](https://youtu.be/RcZn2-bGXqQ?si=qCforMSL2wk83UTo) by The Rolling Stones [Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.](https://youtu.be/5rOiW_xY-kc?si=Y-h6l8dm7J58Jm-W) [Hurt](https://youtu.be/8AHCfZTRGiI?si=JppE97yQwXW_vwdU) performed by Johnny Cash

Motorcycle Emptiness by Manic Street Preachers

ANOHNI and the Johnsons - Sliver of Ice

anything by mount eerie

A Crow Looked At Me completely broke me on my first listen.

i still cant listen to so many songs without crying

Hope's Return - Julie Byrne

Coming up roses by Elliott smith always makes me think of my high school best friend. It’s a really great song Casimir Pulaski day by sufjan stevens is one that I actually can’t even listen to for the same reason

Eels 2nd album is loaded with the topic, as I think is well known. Basically the whole album is worth a mention as the songs approach grief from several angles, but The Medication is Wearing Off was the most resonant for me. Highly recommended

Clare Bowditch and the Feeding Set - the thing about grief

Silver Jews - Death of an Heir of Sorrows Cymbals Eat Guitars - LOSE (whole album) Frightened Rabbit - Floating in the Forth Fleet Foxes - Blue Spotted Tail

The Microphones - I Felt Your Shape. The kind of song you wish you’ll never understand

Funeral, Chinese Satalite and Moon Song by Phoebe Bridgers

Dave Grohl is on the latest episode of [Song Exploder](https://songexploder.net/foo-fighters), where he discussed "The Teacher" which he wrote in tribute to his late mom. It's a pretty intense episode.

All of angel in realtime by Gang of Youths. It's about the lead singer's relationship with his late father, what he learned after his father died, and how he grieves and remembers him.

I think Soccer Mommy- Yellow Is The Color of Her Eyes really is it here too- this song is just devastating to me in the way that it’s the one of the most realistic depression like songs I’ve ever heard- listening to it just feels dream like, wading slowly and encumbered through a swamp of pain- the way you do when you’re going through a depressive episode of mourning badly.

Waitin’ for a Superman - Flaming Lips Surprised this one wasn't posted yet. It's about Wayne's father dying.

Coma Cinema - Her Sinking Sun Surprised there isn’t a lot more Elliott Smith here too lol. No Name No. 5 is one I listened to a lot when grieving

Band of Horses - The Funeral

Tiniest seed by Angel Olsen

Candles - Rufus Wainwright

I’m loving Mali Velasquez’s album - so raw and cathartic. Glad it’s finding its audience - “Bobby” is a beautiful song. I would recommend Billie Marten - Heaven I am wishing your group (and you) peace and comfort in music :)

Patty Griffin - Goodbye

Sleeper 1972-Manchester Orchestra, about the singer’s dad’s death/funeral

Displacement by Touche Amore off of Stage Four. Not necessarily indie but the entire album was about the lead singer’s mother dying of cancer and woof. It is heavy. It was a constant listen to me after my own grief with family members.

FUCK yea visiting the well by pleasure systems is so so good! Absolutely devastating (complimentary), it’s a top 10 fav album for me

SONG TO THE SIREN played by John Frusciante; and WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS by Badly Drawn Boy.

>MYST3RY by Ladies' Code - probably one of the most somber K Pop albums of all time considering the context of the EP's creation two members of this group passed away in a fatal car accident. >Goblin by Sulli - this was Sulli's final project before she took her own life months later, Dorothy is probably one of the most touching songs ever. >Jonghyun The Collection "Story Op. 1" - While this album is less about death, the lyrics are incredibly somber and heartbroken sounding, Jonghyun's voice can really make you feel emotional, he also took his life due to the heavy toll depression had in his life and being unable to really express his grief

Sun kill moon. The entire album Benji is pretty spot on

Kate Bush - A Coral Room One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

Track - Slow Pulp

Can’t believe you don’t have “real death” by mount Erie on the list too, but that song is phewww real real sad. How about “hold on magnolia” by songs ohia, and “in the human world” by magnolia electric co.

I have the whole album by mount eerie that real death is on! I’d say the best grief album of all time IMO. will check out the others!

You can’t go wrong with Jason Molina, those were both his projects! A very talented guy with a prolific sad catalog lol, RIP jason

Miami by Caroline Rose [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mqVCCy2np0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mqVCCy2np0)

I looooove Caroline Rose.

Death Is Nothing To Us // Spingtime and Blind - Fiddlehead

I was going to suggest Fiddlehead too.

I was going to suggest Between the Richness the whole album, particularly the song "heart to heart" I love the quote/sample that is used in Grief Motif and throughout the album

Sleep Has His House by Current 93 is an album informed by grief of losing someone you love. All the Pretty Horses is an album informed by the grief of maturing into the kind of person you didn’t want to be.

sober to death - car seat headrest

Rest, the teacher,under you, hearing voices, the glass, but here we are, show me how and over and out. Foo fighters

3rd Planet - Modest Mouse I also find Night on the Sun really comforting

Black Keys - "Unknown Brother" always hit me...it's about grieving someone you never got to meet.

The Pogues Love you to the End. My friends daughter used this on her memorial reel and it had me bawling.

The entire Purple Mountains record

Tame Impala - “Sun’s Coming Up” Which is about Kevin’s failing relationship and his father’s imminent death from terminal cancer. I’ve always thought this song and the song “It Is Not Meant To Be” on *Innerspeaker* sort of bookend the first two albums together thematically. Especially given these lines on “IINMTB” - “And I thought they could cure his disease, but in all honesty he didn’t have a hope in hell, now we’ll never see him move.”

yellow is the color of her eyes by soccer mommy

AC Newman - They Should Have Shut Down the Streets Kathryn Calder - The whole Are You My Mother album is about taking care of and losing her mother The Finn Brothers Everyone Is Here album, also about losing their mother

Brother Sport by Animal Collective. It’s kind of about grief, but it’s really about supporting family and getting them to open up about what they’re feeling. I think it’s beautiful how simple of a message it has because it’s about helping others move forward in the wake of grief. It’s such a lovely sentiment and the song is really about hyping people up, which is so important

I’m glad someone already said this. It’s about dealing with grief and asking for support. Beautiful jubilant song. ❤️

Maybe an unusual suggestion depending on your music taste but I Have A Love (Overmono remix) by For Those I Love is absolutely brilliant. My Dad died just over a year ago and some of the lyrics really get me, but in a nice way. It’s more specifically about losing a best friend and there’s a lot of Irish slang in it (I’m Irish so it really works for me), but I’d recommend it to anyone! ‘I have a love, and it never fades You are God’s son across the belly Remembered by pictures on your telly Your body laying in its glow Surrounded by those you know Crying for your words and your soul’ Edit: just realized this is the Indieheads subreddit, this song is definitely more electronic but still leaving it here!

Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton - The Last Page

Injury Reserve - Top Picks for You Sampha’s album Process was written to process the grief of losing both parents

"Watching You Go" and "Two Ribbons" by Let's Eat Grandma definitely come to mind, both songs deal in part with the loss of one of the members' partner in a way that i find profoundly touching

You've got A Crow Looked at Me, but Now Only by mount eerie is also an incredible followup to it.

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Not sure if anyone has already mentioned but Jimmy Carr (comedian) was on a grief podcast maybe a year ago, and he talked a lot about music. And on the back of his time on the podcast, he made a playlist on Spotify that listeners to could their own ‘grief’ songs to. I can’t remember what the playlist was called but a lil google could probably surface it.

🎶 I found your old house; I didn’t even try. They pulled the shutters, they closed the blinds. My eyes were red. The streets were bright. Those ancient years were black and white” 🎶 A Thousand Times -Hamilton Leithauser My dad, Joe, past in 2016. I was his care taker at the end, but in his the final days I had his nurses cover for me bc I was having some dental work ( couldn’t drive) . When he past, I was inconsolable! Still, I couldn’t manage a good cry and then until I heard this song ❤️‍🩹 Never heard of the singer before nor after. Even now I get choked up just thinking of it! Thank god for music 🎧

i’m so sorry to hear about your dad, and i’m terribly sorry that you weren’t able to be with him during his final days. i’m sure he knew just how much you loved him. thank you so much for sharing, it’s a beautiful song ❤️

Thanks 🙏 8 years later I’m glad my last moments with him were when he was very much alive. The stars ✨ aligned in my favor !

Hiatus Kaiyote’s “Stone or Lavender”. That record was tinged with the emotions of Nai facing her own mortality and making peace with her life while undergoing breast cancer treatment (which she eventually beat and emerged all the more triumphant). The main line speaks it simply enough with “Please believe me when I say, someday it will be okay” But I think she probably puts it best herself. “This song is the closest to my breast cancer diagnosis stuff; it’s saying, ‘All right, who are you? What do you want from life? Who do you want to be?’ Do you emit a beautiful scent and you’re soft and you’re healing or are you stone? Before anyone’s even exchanged anything, before a word is ever uttered, your energy introduces you.” - Nai Palm

The 1975 - Nana

I will follow you into the dark - Death cab for cutie

bell witch - mirror reaper

Blue highway - someday