Catharsis

I would say that, in general, my favorite songs are sad and emotional. It's good to feel gloomy sometimes, and after you hear a song that you really identify and connect with, there comes catharsis. That's what this new mix is designed to do. Hopefully, after this series of depressing songs end, you won't end up depressed, but will instead have realised something and gotten something out of it.

http://8tracks.com/discretemath/broken-hearts-want-broken-necks

(The name comes from a lyric in the song Broke by Modest Mouse (although I think the particular lyric is not in the version I put in the mix...))

Tracklist

1. Where Lies My Tarp? - The Microphones
2. It's Cool, We Can Still Be Friends - Bright Eyes
3. Baby Blue Sedan - Modest Mouse
4. How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead
5. Is This Really What You Want? - "Jesus Christ" (The Indie Band)
6. Upside Down - Banjo or Freakout
7. Sleep the Clock Around - Belle and Sebastian
8. Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl - Broken Social Scene
9. Machine Gun - Slowdive
10. Sometimes - My Bloody Valentine
11. Sunken Treasure - Wilco
12. Blood Bank - Bon Iver
13. Sleep Spent - Death Cab for Cutie
14. Broke - Modest Mouse
15. Here - Pavement
16. The Sea is a Good Place to Think of the Future - Los Campesinos!
17. That Summer, at Home, I had Become the Invisible Boy - The Twilight Sad
18. About Today - The National
19. Gone - M83
20. Some Things Last a Long Time - Daniel Johnston


- Alec