Songs that feel like Aftersun (2022)
A sun-bleached, tender ache of fading memory, where youthful wonder masks a quiet, insurmountable paternal grief.
- Fade Into You by Mazzy Star: Captures the exact hazy, sun-faded emotional weight of looking back at someone you loved who was slipping away.
- The Moon by The Microphones: Evokes a quiet, devastating vastness and the fragile vulnerability of human existence.
- Not by Big Thief: Mirrors the desperate frustration of trying to articulate internal pain that refuses to be named.
- Untitled #3 by Sigur Rós: Provides a wordless, cinematic wash of grief and bittersweet beauty that feels like looking at old home videos.
- Everybody Hurts by R.E.M.: A quintessential 90s anthem of shared, heavy sorrow that fits the era and the emotional undertow of the holiday.
- Souvenir by boygenius: Reflects on the physical objects and fleeting places that hold the ghost of a relationship.
- A Certain Romance by Arctic Monkeys: Brings a nostalgic lens to the bittersweet transition from childhood observation to teenage awareness.
- Motion Picture Soundtrack by Radiohead: Delivers an overwhelming sense of finality and a heartbreaking acceptance of loss.
- Waiting Around to Die by Townes Van Zandt: Distills the heavy, inescapable presence of chronic depression shadowing a parent's life.
