Some songs close an album like a door being gently shut rather than slammed. “Harmony” is one…
Elton John
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There’s a certain kind of character study that only feels at home in a song, and “Social…
There’s a particular kind of grief that doesn’t have a name, the kind you feel for a…
Some songs don’t ask to be understood so much as survived. From the first crunch of guitar,…
There’s a particular kind of song that earns its place on a double album not by being…
A teenage girl is dead, and everyone who loved her is implicated in her death. That’s the…
There’s a particular kind of cruelty in songs that dress contempt up as concern. “Dirty Little Girl”…
A man is dead, and nobody with power is going to mourn him. That’s the gut of…
A sailor comes to port, spends what little he has, and tells himself the woman he’s paying…