Kevin's Winter Albums

The temperature is slowly dropping these days. A lot of the trees have lost almost all their leaves. There's often the potential for rain to be mixing with snow. Yes, yes it's that time: Winter is coming.

With that change in temperature comes different moods, emotions and tones to match our destitute landscape. Long gone is the Summer pop music or the joyful Spring albums: they have been replaced with melancholy and weary songs. I'm now going to start a list, and Ryan or anyone else can add on if they want, for some good Winter albums / songs that I've found in the last few years.

Albums:
Christian Fennesz - Black Sea
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Etiquette
The Field - From Here we go Sublime
Husky Rescue - Ghost is not Real
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas, Lost Ghosts
Why? - Alopecia

Most of these albums are not the most... uplifting. They're generally very sombre in tone and reflect the feeling of Winter in various ways. For example, Alopecia, Set Yourself on Fire, and Etiquette all have lyrics that generally deal with pain and suffering in relationships that individuals have with others. Throughout most of the songs, the lyrics deal with individuals desiring a sort of emotional or spiritual renewal that they are just not obtaining it in their lives. The rest of the albums generally have a sort of melancholy feel to them that comes through their instruments. There are harsh realities and existentialist crises scattered about (Modest Mouse's "The Stars are Projectors" or "Lives") that make aware the reality of life and death that the season of Winter brings.
Overall they're all great albums, with Moon and Antarctica actually being my favourite album ever, so I suggest you check them out.

But I need to give special recognition to another Winter album....










SO GOOOD