I really love how delve so deep into the fringes of music groups and their motives for each song/album. I wish you had more followers. Your commentary is excellent. Keep chomping away at this media.
Loved this video. I would add Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco, If You're Feeling Sinister by Belle & Sebastian, and Any Other City by Life Without Buildings. All have high points and tongue-in-cheek lyrics, but capture the feelings of seasonal depression, homesickness, and moving to big, cold cities.
YHF is one I’ve been meaning to check out for a while. All of these sound really interesting though and I love how specific some of those themes are. Thanks for sharing!
One of my favorite albums for the cooler months is I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love by MCR. It's got a lot of bangers and really hits you where it hurts lol
These vids are so good! Another niche genre I'd love to see you cover is Southern Gothic. I've recently been digging folks like Amigo the Devil, The Devil Makes Three, The Civil Wars, etc. Would love to hear what you're able to call out from the genre and maybe do an overview along with some of your faves!
Love the seasonal depression representation; good video hook too, I immediately had to click. The album I primarily turn to is Pang by Caroline Polchek. It's not actually all that depressive, but the instrumentals and vocal performance are so ephemeral, clean, and somber I find a lot of comfort in it. Its definitely a headphones and lying in bed album imo.
Pang is like hanging over the edge of a ship and feeling sea mist on your face as you approach a storm in the distance. Grey and gloomy but still shimmering and shifting- it's alive.
Really enjoyed this video especially how you included an album from a different genre. Personally one album I go to that’s depressing is Jane Doe by Metalcore/Hardcore band Converge. It’s an brutal aggressive and emotional concept sorta album about a breakup and I love it especially when I am angry or sim like that😂
This was a fun selection. I was unaware of that particular Cardigans album although I knew their work could get pretty dark. "Solace" is also new to me but seems up my alley as someone who's been a far of weird sad hip-hop. Anyway, here are some of my own recommendations for seasonal depression music, a few months late but frankly evergreen in applicability: - Airs, Gloomlights: Massive depressive shoegaze album of the Have a Nice Life school divided into two discs, the first focusing mainly on wails of pain disguised as emo-adjacent noise-pop, the second being a titanic doom metal-inspired wallow in existential misery. The hook on "White Rose" is indelible, while "Movement" is pure eerie elegance. - Angels of Light, New Mother: People talk up Swans a lot, and for good reason, but I think Michael Gira was kind of born to make understated alt-country. Any of their first three records can go here, but this one is probably the biggest bummer front to back. It's difficult to describe how perfectly "Praise Your Name" and "His Entropic Highness" balance transcendent beauty and wretched self-loathing. - Current 93, Sleep Has His House: One of the most understated and dare I say pretty entries in the neofolk greats' discography, with lush instrumentation revolving around gentle harmonium drones, with lyrics focusing on David Tibet's feelings in the aftermath of his father's death. The title track always destroys me even as it comforts me. - The Gerbils, Are You Sleepy: Maybe the most underrated band in the Elephant 6 Collective. This album is mainly here for the second half of the record, which begins with the deranged ghost story-as-love ballad "Glue" and just gets increasingly bleak and bizarre from there. That said, the superficially cheery first half is also lyrically pretty downbeat and occasionally unsettling. - Harvey Milk, A Small Turn of Human Kindness: While maybe not *the* most miserable sludge band ever-it's very hard to lap The Body in that arena; shoutout to All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood, which is kind of too overtly frightening for this list-it's hard to say that Harvey Milk don't make a good go at it, and this particular album, which is less even a concept album than it is one long song in several parts, is arguably their magnum opus of total despair. - jordaan mason and the horse museum, divorce lawyers i shaved my head: Speaking of E6, this is what I think people who've never heard Neutral Milk Hotel but know them by reputation think In the Aeroplane Over the Sea sounds like. Absolutely harrowing weirdo folk album about an incredibly ugly breakup. - Low, I Could Live in Hope: I wanted to put The Curtain Hits the Cast here for "Do You Know How to Waltz?" alone but this one clears. Not a single song on this thing is cheerful, including the version of "You Are My Sunshine". The undisputed masters of slowcore. - Nicole Dollanganger, Observatory Mansions: Extremely divisive artist but I feel like I'd be incredibly dishonest not putting one of the most abjectly miserable records I've ever listened to on here. The opening one-two punch of "Rampage" and "Creek Blues" will destroy your sense of well-being almost immediately, particularly the latter. - Sutcliffe Jügend, The Deluge: Mostly on here because of "On Her Decline". Who would have thought that one of the edgiest first-wave power electronics bands would go on to produce such a deeply humane, monstrously sad and genuinely beautiful sonic portrait of an abuse survivor struggling with outliving her abuser. The rest of the album is very, very good, but "On Her Decline"is perfect. - Xiu Xiu, Fabulous Muscles: Any of the first five Xiu Xiu records could go here, with La Forêt and A Promise being especially strong contenders, but I went with the incandescently angry generational trauma record with the uncomfortable asides about Iraq War atrocities and being in love with a violent self-loathing closet case. "Crank Heart" is my jam.
This is a fantastic write up! I haven’t heard of any of these (besides Xiu Xiu) so I’m excited to have something new to dive into. I’m glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for adding some interesting albums
@@JukeboxHistory Thank you! Horribly depressing and/or unsettling music is my lifeblood. I didn't even get to talk about Dälek here, but when you brought up "Solace"'s length and lyrical content my mind drifted to "Praise Be the Man" and "Black Smoke Rises", which… *uff da.* I also mostly stayed away from noise, dark ambient and extreme metal because those are definitionally not for everyone (and maybe kind of too easy), but I could make a whole list just of "hard mode" albums for coping with extremely bad times.
Big one I've gotten into listening when my depression is at its worst is Electronic/House artist Madeon's secret EP 12122017, also known under the name "Celine". Madeon puts out lots of very positive and gorgeously produced music imo, he can be super uplifting to listen to (which he's always stated as his goal). But basically he had a whole ARG that began with the release of his darkest sounding track of the time, The Prince, to a much heavier, darker series of 5 songs. The ARG is great, there's a detailed Reddit thread by one of the participants, I am so mad I missed out on it lol. I'm sure someone's made a video. He had a very bad period of mental health struggles between 2017 (Shelter Tour period) and 2019 (release of Good Faith), and as the story goes, the 12th of December, 2017, music made him feel nothing, so he took out his rage in the music itself. It's a haunting listen. Really hollow, industrial inspiration in the start, sounds of pain distorted and mixed into the music itself, just really screechy, harsh, almost SOPHIE-like blown out synths. It's an awesome 15 minutes of dark electronic music, and since its release he's started mixing some of the more listenable(?) tracks into his DJ sets. Big fan of 12122017 in all its messy glory. (I have pretty bad general anxiety and OCD that loooves to latch on to violent imagery and turn it into intrusive thoughts, so I have to be pretty light on the intensity of what I listen to. So idk how actually dark 12122017 objectively is. Definitely not day-ruining, but still a good album to commiserate with imo)
i'm not sure how to properly describe the it, but my go to seasanol depression album is Your City Gave me Asthma. listened to it for the first time house sitting an old farm house late december. awful, but immaculate vibes that winter
My personal top 5: 1. The Downward Spiral - NIN 2. Closer - Joy Division 3. Pornography - The Cure 4. World Coming Down - Type O Negative 5. A Crow Looked at Me - Mt. Eerie
i will always find an excuse to hail lingua ignota. if you're like me and wanna like ethel cain because of the lyrics/themes but can't really get into the sound but want a good religious trama artist she makes beautiful terrifying stuff. also backxwash fits this bill well
Lingua Ignota is such a once in a lifetime artist. Genuinely have a hard time listening to her sometimes lol. Backxwash is also killer. I Lie Here Buried with My Rings and My Dresses is probably the coolest name for an album ever. Great picks. Thanks for sharing!
Nico's The Marble Index from 1968, together with the Velvets John Cale as co-producer and arranger laying the foundations what would evolve into Post Punk and Goth. Also Cale's Music For A New Society from 1982, the bleakest album I know of.
The self titled alice in chains album hurt me then and hurts me now. I listen to it when im depressed in a way like my soul is dying. Dirt at least has some humorous moments, Iron Gland. Nothing Song WOULD be humorous but the music is very creepy not to mention that it shows how emotionally compromised Layne was.
Oh for sure. Self Titled is one of the most emotionally heavy albums out there. I like that comparison to Dirt too. You can definitely tell the band was in a different place on those albums
I really love how delve so deep into the fringes of music groups and their motives for each song/album. I wish you had more followers. Your commentary is excellent. Keep chomping away at this media.
Thanks Joel! Glad you’re enjoying the videos
i would add the queen is dead by the smiths. there’s just something about that album that just hits different in the fall.
The Queen is Dead is soooooo goooooood 😩 easily one of the best albums of all time. Good pick!
preachers daughter saved my winter tbh, it gave me something to obsess and get distracted by
It’s so good. Really hope she goes through with making the movie for it
@@JukeboxHistory she’s writing the book and the b side AND said she only wants to be famous enough to fund the movie 😩 i love how passionate she is
Solace is such a hauntingly beautiful project. It captures true dispare in a way that no other album can in my opinion.
It’s pretty hard hitting 🥲
did not need this.. but so happy to watch!!!
Thank you so much for watching!
Loved this video. I would add Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco, If You're Feeling Sinister by Belle & Sebastian, and Any Other City by Life Without Buildings. All have high points and tongue-in-cheek lyrics, but capture the feelings of seasonal depression, homesickness, and moving to big, cold cities.
YHF is one I’ve been meaning to check out for a while. All of these sound really interesting though and I love how specific some of those themes are. Thanks for sharing!
One of my favorite albums for the cooler months is I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love by MCR. It's got a lot of bangers and really hits you where it hurts lol
Ohh yea MCR is perfect for the winter months! Also your username is killing me ☠️
These vids are so good! Another niche genre I'd love to see you cover is Southern Gothic. I've recently been digging folks like Amigo the Devil, The Devil Makes Three, The Civil Wars, etc. Would love to hear what you're able to call out from the genre and maybe do an overview along with some of your faves!
Oooooh that’s a good one! Noted 🫡
dusters stratosphere and contemporary movement have carried me through seasonal depression the last couple years
I’ve been needing to go down the slowcore rabbit hole 🐇 will definitely need to check out Stratosphere
Love the seasonal depression representation; good video hook too, I immediately had to click. The album I primarily turn to is Pang by Caroline Polchek. It's not actually all that depressive, but the instrumentals and vocal performance are so ephemeral, clean, and somber I find a lot of comfort in it. Its definitely a headphones and lying in bed album imo.
Pang is like hanging over the edge of a ship and feeling sea mist on your face as you approach a storm in the distance. Grey and gloomy but still shimmering and shifting- it's alive.
Ohhh I definitely need to check out Pang then! Desire, I Want To Turn Into You is my favorite album of 2023 too.
Absolutely gonna listen to this. That’s a beautiful description 😭
@@JukeboxHistory same I loooove that album. You're in for a treat then! Enjoy!
Fuck yes i love caroline polachek
You deserve way more subscribers!!! I can't believe you only have 1.3k subs
Thank you! Glad you enjoy the channel 🎉
Really enjoyed this video especially how you included an album from a different genre. Personally one album I go to that’s depressing is Jane Doe by Metalcore/Hardcore band Converge. It’s an brutal aggressive and emotional concept sorta album about a breakup and I love it especially when I am angry or sim like that😂
Oh that’s a great one! Yea I can definitely see Jane Doe being good for that 😂
Thanks for including Skinny Puppy. I was pleasantly surprised to see them here. They were groundbreaking and a genre unto themselves.
Such a great band. Too Dark Park has always been a personal favorite. Thanks for watching!
This was a fun selection. I was unaware of that particular Cardigans album although I knew their work could get pretty dark. "Solace" is also new to me but seems up my alley as someone who's been a far of weird sad hip-hop. Anyway, here are some of my own recommendations for seasonal depression music, a few months late but frankly evergreen in applicability:
- Airs, Gloomlights: Massive depressive shoegaze album of the Have a Nice Life school divided into two discs, the first focusing mainly on wails of pain disguised as emo-adjacent noise-pop, the second being a titanic doom metal-inspired wallow in existential misery. The hook on "White Rose" is indelible, while "Movement" is pure eerie elegance.
- Angels of Light, New Mother: People talk up Swans a lot, and for good reason, but I think Michael Gira was kind of born to make understated alt-country. Any of their first three records can go here, but this one is probably the biggest bummer front to back. It's difficult to describe how perfectly "Praise Your Name" and "His Entropic Highness" balance transcendent beauty and wretched self-loathing.
- Current 93, Sleep Has His House: One of the most understated and dare I say pretty entries in the neofolk greats' discography, with lush instrumentation revolving around gentle harmonium drones, with lyrics focusing on David Tibet's feelings in the aftermath of his father's death. The title track always destroys me even as it comforts me.
- The Gerbils, Are You Sleepy: Maybe the most underrated band in the Elephant 6 Collective. This album is mainly here for the second half of the record, which begins with the deranged ghost story-as-love ballad "Glue" and just gets increasingly bleak and bizarre from there. That said, the superficially cheery first half is also lyrically pretty downbeat and occasionally unsettling.
- Harvey Milk, A Small Turn of Human Kindness: While maybe not *the* most miserable sludge band ever-it's very hard to lap The Body in that arena; shoutout to All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood, which is kind of too overtly frightening for this list-it's hard to say that Harvey Milk don't make a good go at it, and this particular album, which is less even a concept album than it is one long song in several parts, is arguably their magnum opus of total despair.
- jordaan mason and the horse museum, divorce lawyers i shaved my head: Speaking of E6, this is what I think people who've never heard Neutral Milk Hotel but know them by reputation think In the Aeroplane Over the Sea sounds like. Absolutely harrowing weirdo folk album about an incredibly ugly breakup.
- Low, I Could Live in Hope: I wanted to put The Curtain Hits the Cast here for "Do You Know How to Waltz?" alone but this one clears. Not a single song on this thing is cheerful, including the version of "You Are My Sunshine". The undisputed masters of slowcore.
- Nicole Dollanganger, Observatory Mansions: Extremely divisive artist but I feel like I'd be incredibly dishonest not putting one of the most abjectly miserable records I've ever listened to on here. The opening one-two punch of "Rampage" and "Creek Blues" will destroy your sense of well-being almost immediately, particularly the latter.
- Sutcliffe Jügend, The Deluge: Mostly on here because of "On Her Decline". Who would have thought that one of the edgiest first-wave power electronics bands would go on to produce such a deeply humane, monstrously sad and genuinely beautiful sonic portrait of an abuse survivor struggling with outliving her abuser. The rest of the album is very, very good, but "On Her Decline"is perfect.
- Xiu Xiu, Fabulous Muscles: Any of the first five Xiu Xiu records could go here, with La Forêt and A Promise being especially strong contenders, but I went with the incandescently angry generational trauma record with the uncomfortable asides about Iraq War atrocities and being in love with a violent self-loathing closet case. "Crank Heart" is my jam.
This is a fantastic write up! I haven’t heard of any of these (besides Xiu Xiu) so I’m excited to have something new to dive into. I’m glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for adding some interesting albums
@@JukeboxHistory Thank you! Horribly depressing and/or unsettling music is my lifeblood. I didn't even get to talk about Dälek here, but when you brought up "Solace"'s length and lyrical content my mind drifted to "Praise Be the Man" and "Black Smoke Rises", which… *uff da.* I also mostly stayed away from noise, dark ambient and extreme metal because those are definitionally not for everyone (and maybe kind of too easy), but I could make a whole list just of "hard mode" albums for coping with extremely bad times.
Big one I've gotten into listening when my depression is at its worst is Electronic/House artist Madeon's secret EP 12122017, also known under the name "Celine". Madeon puts out lots of very positive and gorgeously produced music imo, he can be super uplifting to listen to (which he's always stated as his goal). But basically he had a whole ARG that began with the release of his darkest sounding track of the time, The Prince, to a much heavier, darker series of 5 songs. The ARG is great, there's a detailed Reddit thread by one of the participants, I am so mad I missed out on it lol. I'm sure someone's made a video.
He had a very bad period of mental health struggles between 2017 (Shelter Tour period) and 2019 (release of Good Faith), and as the story goes, the 12th of December, 2017, music made him feel nothing, so he took out his rage in the music itself.
It's a haunting listen. Really hollow, industrial inspiration in the start, sounds of pain distorted and mixed into the music itself, just really screechy, harsh, almost SOPHIE-like blown out synths. It's an awesome 15 minutes of dark electronic music, and since its release he's started mixing some of the more listenable(?) tracks into his DJ sets.
Big fan of 12122017 in all its messy glory.
(I have pretty bad general anxiety and OCD that loooves to latch on to violent imagery and turn it into intrusive thoughts, so I have to be pretty light on the intensity of what I listen to. So idk how actually dark 12122017 objectively is. Definitely not day-ruining, but still a good album to commiserate with imo)
This is a great write up! I haven’t heard of it at all so thank you for shouting this out. Will def be checking it out later. Thanks for watching!
i'm not sure how to properly describe the it, but my go to seasanol depression album is Your City Gave me Asthma. listened to it for the first time house sitting an old farm house late december. awful, but immaculate vibes that winter
Never heard of it but it sounds cool! Sounds like a good place to listen to some depressing music 😢 thanks for sharing
Skinny Puppy's '' Ode To Groovy '' off the ''in defense of animals'' LP is such a good song.
My personal top 5:
1. The Downward Spiral - NIN
2. Closer - Joy Division
3. Pornography - The Cure
4. World Coming Down - Type O Negative
5. A Crow Looked at Me - Mt. Eerie
Not a bad album in this list! Pornography is a great pick for this time of year 🤌
My youtube reccommended really targeted me with this huh. I see ethel cain in that thumbnail and I know I'm not safe here
No one is safe with Preacher’s Daughter 🔪
Also, hoping you might tackle a look at the Industrial / goth and it derivatives and noise sometime in the near future
That would be killer. I’ve always wanted to do an industrial video. A lot of great music to touch on there. Thanks for watching!
i will always find an excuse to hail lingua ignota. if you're like me and wanna like ethel cain because of the lyrics/themes but can't really get into the sound but want a good religious trama artist she makes beautiful terrifying stuff. also backxwash fits this bill well
Lingua Ignota is such a once in a lifetime artist. Genuinely have a hard time listening to her sometimes lol. Backxwash is also killer. I Lie Here Buried with My Rings and My Dresses is probably the coolest name for an album ever. Great picks. Thanks for sharing!
The title is so funny the video is so sad. 10/10
Thanks for watching!
Needs some black metal on here
Nico's The Marble Index from 1968, together with the Velvets John Cale as co-producer and arranger laying the foundations what would evolve into Post Punk and Goth. Also Cale's Music For A New Society from 1982, the bleakest album I know of.
skinny puppy mention!!!
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solace 😢
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The self titled alice in chains album hurt me then and hurts me now. I listen to it when im depressed in a way like my soul is dying. Dirt at least has some humorous moments, Iron Gland. Nothing Song WOULD be humorous but the music is very creepy not to mention that it shows how emotionally compromised Layne was.
Oh for sure. Self Titled is one of the most emotionally heavy albums out there. I like that comparison to Dirt too. You can definitely tell the band was in a different place on those albums
@@JukeboxHistory If Dirt was the disaster, then the self titled was the aftermath...the eerie, disturbing, empty, dimly lit aftermath.
7th layer of suicide anyone?
I love Skinny Puppy and I got a little surprise for you...
Thanks for suggesting so many different genres. No mention of The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers though? It is bleak.
I’ll have to check it out! I think the channel Trash Theory has covered them quite a bit actually
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Skinny Puppy now and forever
U know Giles Corey?
I’ve heard of them but never listened to their stuff. Are they worth a spin?
@JukeboxHistory yes! Side project from one of the guys from Have a Nice Life, which is also a great band
i like ur eyebrowns
Thank you 🥸
@@JukeboxHistory thank you for calling me handsome it made my day
im so sorry but you literally have the same face as the guy from the swiftologist youtube channel (trust me on this yall)
Omg I love him! 😂 my wife and I listen to his podcast
pud or pooter?