Beck
A hypnotic, blues-inflected chant built around a single image—a lightning strike—that expands from a personal vision into a…
apocalypse/environmental collapse revelation and being struck down spiritual surrender
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash, in his final recording years, builds an apocalyptic vision almost entirely out of scripture, particularly…
judgment and reckoning mortality apocalypse
Built to Spill
A hazy meditation on wanting revelation secondhand, "Car" pairs a plainspoken opening about borrowing a vehicle with a spiraling…
passive longing vicarious experience escape and inertia