The post break-up period can be terrible. That’s why we’ve put together a list of the eight best musical albums to listen to while you put your ex behind you.

 

You feel like crap, you’re newly single, or have been alone for so long that you start thinking of all the mistakes you’ve made in your life. It’s a Friday night (the weekend!) and you have no plans

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8. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Lead singer Kevin Barnes wrote this album while confronting his own depression and sexuality, and dealing with a divorce from his wife (they have a daughter, Barnes is gay). Of Montreal crafts extremely complex sounds and transitions, and at its best the band is excellent at condensing them into a psychedelic medley. The music fits like clockwork with Barnes’ lyrics about mood swings (”Come on mood shift shift back to good again / Come on be a friend”) impossibly unattainable love (”Thought that if I sank the Seine I might find you”) and in the album’s grand 12-minute opus “The Past is a Grotesque Animal,” trying to make sense of life at present (”At least I author my own disaster”). The album has line after great line about the darker side of love.

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2. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Another all-time great, which fits on lists of many things. Jeff Mangum wrote these songs about his deceased wife and the painful minutiae of their love. As suggested by many, the album deserves to be listened to in its 39.8″ entirety. Mangum, whose voice is miles away from Antony’s, belts out the lyrics in his nasal, is-he-trying-too-hard yell, and the listener can feel the wretchedness and heartache through the speakers. For poetic creativity in dealing with hard feelings, there is none better. The more expansive your imagination, the more forcefully Aeroplane will affect you.

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