Maxwell
Maxwell's cover of Kate Bush's 'This Woman's Work' turns a song about a man's helplessness during childbirth into a raw,…
helplessness impending loss regret
D'Angelo
A prayer-like meditation on trying to hold steady inside collapse, written for a video game about the death of the American…
endurance amid chaos spiritual uncertainty frontier mythology and its end
Nina Simone
A traditional African-American spiritual rebuilt by Simone into a ten-minute chase sequence: a sinner runs from judgment on the…
judgment day futile flight refused sanctuary
Gram Parsons
A hymn-structured elegy that mourns three losses in succession -- a young man killed in a car crash, a musician taken too soon,…
mortality and premature death grief and mourning faith and supplication