Nick Drake, old Anathema, Dax Riggs are a few that I've been listening to lately.

Mineral - 'The Power of Failing'
Keaton Henson - 'Dear...' and 'Birthdays'
Kind of Like Spitting - 'You Secretly Want Me Dead'

slowdive 1st album (Just for a day)

This is probably the most depressing song i know.



idk why but this song makes me feel like im walking through an abandoned castle and ian is its sad king whose voice echoes through its hallways.

You mean there's some other kind?

Check out 'Enjoy's paradise and personality live session its really dark just two bass guitars and drums. The cure of course , Elvis depressedly, salvia plath , Elliot Smith , Black books
thats all i coud think on the top of my head


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The Smiths are very melancholic, if not always in sound then certainly in content. 'How Soon Is Now', 'What Difference Does It Make' and 'Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now' are good shouts.

Manic Street Preachers are also dark, especially their earlier works. 'A Design For Life', and 'Motorcycle Emptiness' showcase the same sort of existential crisis, dissatisfaction with life kind of feeling as The Smiths and Radiohead. They also have more specific songs like 'She Bathed Herself In A Bath of Bleach'.

Broken Social Scene
Matt Maltese
Girls
King Krule
Deafheaven- I'm not a big metal fan myself, but this is just pure beauty. Give it a chance :)
Labi Siffre
Whitney
Frankie Cosmos
Homeshake
Spiritualized- Ladies and Gentlemen We're Floating in Space has to be on one the most beautiful songs I've ever heard)
Mild High Club
Sufjan Stevens

Broken Heart from the same album is gutting

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds has some pretty depressing stuff.

For some reason, Joy Division can really make me sad. Perhaps "Atmosphere"?

Mount Eerie 'A Crow Looked at Me' LP

I can't remember anything more heartbreaking

Nick Cave every time

^Yes to Nick Cave. Tindersticks, too. A Night In, Another Night In, My Oblivion... some of the saddest music I know.

I'm FB friends with a young musician who's been making some really good slowcore-ish sad music lately. He calls his 'band' (just him so far, with occasional female backing vox from friends) A Thousand Hours, named after the Cure song. He's a Cure fan, although his music doesn't have much in common with them. It's more a hybrid of Red House Painters and Cocteau Twins, hints of Low, some Breathless-ish synths, with also a touch (very small touch) of '80s coldwave. I'd post a URL, but I haven't written enough posts yet. :(

Since I mentioned Breathless, they're also on my sad music list. They're an English indie band who've been making music since the early '80s. Ivo tapped their singer Dominic Appleton for his second This Mortal Coil album because he thought Appleton had one of the saddest voices he'd ever heard. Their early music is a little more jagged post-punk, but still great. Even so, the reflective dreaminess was still there and has only grown with each album. My favorite is their 1991 masterpiece, Between Happiness & Heartache.

eliiott smith

Does Coldplay count? ;)

Try Child Psychology by Black Box Recorder

I feel like the most depressing music you can listen to is music made by artists who offed themselves.

The Shoegaze Sub-Genre are full of bands like this, most well known being Mazzy Star (Hope Sandoval) and Opal. Other bands that fit this sound are Vetiver.

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Alexi Murdoch is definitely the way to go. start with "Towards The Sun"

i'd say that lowercase fits that thread title description pretty well

Joy Division...so invredibly depressing yet so beautiful

melancholy music are strangely calming to me

Low are killers when it comes to depressive alt rock. I'm sure they've been mentioned already but I'm not sure they've recorded a single song with even an ounce of happiness.

That cat's a dick.

This gives me flashbacks to that episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog with the lesbian cats.

I can't be bothered to read through this whole thread. But if they haven't been mentioned - Low.

Excellence supreme for sad, rainy, lonely nights filled with ponderings of regret and mauve intestinal realizations of your history of existential **** ups.

You can try the best relaxing song "Pale Blue Eyes".

Absolutely mate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW2PcOyAWwM

The Fall - Frenz

This band didn't do many sad songs, preferring caustic tunes. But this one is sad, with Mark singing about how his friends are few and worthless.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl4-CLfyclA

Bakullama on Bandcamp. Song called “you and your troubled mind”

Your basic rainy night, suicide assist music. Seven minutes just you and your headphones, enjoy!