That Thai restaurant you ate at on your first date, that one director whose movies you always watched together, the tiny town you visited once on a weekend away – the collateral damage of a broken relationship comes in many forms, none more potent than the songs. Brr.

Slide into their friend’s DMs. And break you down to your core I saw Death Cab again a few months ago and they closed with “Transatlanticism” again. “Windows swung right open, autumn air / Jacket ’round my shoulders is yours So much good music coming out of Australia these days, I think I found this girl somewhere in the middle of a Gang of Youths binge. Joy’s South by Southwest showcase.

The Sundays? Another road trip favorite during my last three projects. You can’t enjoy the coziness if you don’t first feel the chill, and this haunting song from indie’s favorite Australian siblings will have you scrambling for your jacket. This upbeat, flirtatious song has featured heavily on my driving queue this fall – and remember, we’re talking about LA here, so I drive a lot. Unfortunately for us, this song is also kind of a bop. You don’t feel like crying anymore, but you’d still like absolutely as many distractions as humanly possible, please. You can surround yourself with any number of people and distractions, but you won’t truly feel yourself until you feel comfortable again with nobody’s company but your own. Thank you, Triple J! Stepped inside with trusty Shazam, and the rest is history. After two very questionable lead singles, Swift scholars everywhere were bracing ourselves for a Reputation repeat – would Lover be another minefield of grating, soulless pop-trap earworms? That Sixpence None the Richer-esque late-90s pop that bled into the early 2000s? Despite the initial “yikes” this song inevitably elicits, it’s actually got some clever lyrical gems – in one of several moments of self-awareness on the album, Taylor acknowledges her passion for grudges with the line, “I bury hatchets, but I keep maps of where I put ‘em.” Even her buried hatchets aren’t really buried! I’ve been charmed by my team’s appreciation for folk and bluegrass, something I had to look a lot harder for back in college. Her collaboration with producer Jack Antonoff provides a few tracks with a watered-down version of the anthemic electricity that made Lorde’s Melodrama so great. No story here, just a groovy song by our man Leon Bridges, who seems to be straying from his signature 50’s and 60’s-influenced soul on his latest record, Good Thing. Can I go where you go? I’ve been captivated ever since by their genre-defying dark energy; it’s the sort of album you keep on repeat because you’ve never heard anything quite like it. I’ve taken this bus a few times, nose pressed to the window as we glide through snow-capped mountain passes – and this song has become the highlight of my ride.

Any moment this spring that feels raw and delicately beautiful, throw this one on! In a floating, haunting masterpiece reminiscent of early Bon Iver, “epiphany” presents one vivid, gutting image after the next as it draws parallels between COVID-19 hospital workers and soldiers on the front lines of a battle. Mourning the death of a relationship is always complicated, and “my tears ricochet” weaves a rich tapestry of metaphors to illustrate the way our resentments haunt us long after our relationships end. Lyrically, the song perfectly captures the early stages of a crush where you’re constantly self-conscious – “Is it cool that I said all that? “Have my back, yeah, everyday / Feels like home, stay in bed An infectiously happy road trip tune; I think I played this song on every single drive my team took from our ranch in Hesperus to downtown Durango. I’ve been listening to a lot of stuff by this trio from Waterville, Ohio – their thumping folk pop radiates rustbelt authenticity while still maintaining its playful Americana spirit. That’s a spring thing, right? / It’s on your face, and I’m to blame”. on Taylor Swift’s “folklore” From Worst to Best, on Taylor Swift’s “Lover” From Worst To Best, on I Can Soundtrack Your Breakup in 5 Phases, on Set the Songs Free: A Museum of Music Trapped in the Pain of Bygone Love, on Taylor Swift’s “Reputation” From Worst to Best, Taylor Swift’s “folklore” From Worst to Best, Taylor Swift’s “Lover” From Worst To Best, I Can Soundtrack Your Breakup in 5 Phases, Set the Songs Free: A Museum of Music Trapped in the Pain of Bygone Love, Taylor Swift’s “Reputation” From Worst to Best. Had maybe thought that might have been the first dance song at my wedding.”, “I Would Be Sad by the Avett Brothers – my high school ex posted it to his Tumblr after we broke up/I told him I’d kissed someone else, and I remember seeing it and being devastated that now I’d lost him forever and we thought we were going to go all the way and blah blah blah.”, “Anything by G-Eazy or Green Day, and then particularly “I Mean It” by G-Eazy… It sucks to lose that music, because I did enjoy a lot of it, but it’s too hard to listen to and think of the pain I caused him by ending things.

One of my favorite sub-moods of music is the happy-sad “c’est la vie” song, the kind you play when things haven’t gone quite right and you’re equal parts disappointed, determined and amused. A dwindling, mercurial high Even the songs that we play in our darker moments weave themselves into the narrative of our life in a comforting way, assigning meaning and beauty to our pain. The moment I heard the trembling flute, I was hooked on this bittersweet, triumphant tune from 23-year-old Isaac Gracie. Morning cups of tea with milk as the light pours through your window. Put it in a mixtape and sung together. One of the strangest parts of a breakup is the sudden silence – you shared your life with someone for x amount of time, probably communicated with them pretty constantly, felt their company even when you weren’t in their physical presence. Lucky you.

In my defense, I have none He'll touch you and burn you You can find me in the pub, we are watching rugby with his school friends / When a relationship ends, a person isn’t all that you lose. Legend says if you listen to it, no matter where you are or what season it is, spring arrives immediately. Have you realized how in love with them you really were, but about four months too late? You’ve made it, you’re nearly through! The former Vampire Weekend guitarist and producer extraordinaire finally released his long-awaited solo debut Half-Light on September 15, and the result is a dreamy, massively varied album full of strings, hand drums and the mumbly, intimate vocals we’ve come to love. There’s something undeniably wintery about Yumi Zouma’s music, and this subdued, delicate track serves as the perfect soundtrack to mile after mile of Swiss fairytale scenery. Slaughter Beach, Dog is exactly the sort of mid-youth crisis music I needed for my Americorps year, the music of angst and existentialism and – underneath it all – the paradoxical sort of cynical hope that seems to characterize our twenties. My Americorps experience isn’t quite over yet, but I can already tell that this song will electrify me with nostalgia for years to come, sweet echoes of that first drive down the mountain.

I used to scream ferociously In a bad relationship, maybe that’s a sadistic way of thinking – torturing yourself with the music of a love that once was – but to me it’s more like putting something in a memory box to only be opened and revisited when you want to be transported back to that important and largely very happy time in your life. Darkness and light can coexist in one mind and in one album – I could still find joy even in my sadness.

Speaking of Americorps favorites, I’d never met so many Lake Street Dive superfans in one place before I joined this program. This lighthearted band from Columbus, Ohio makes – in their own words – “backyard barbecue breakup music,” and I can’t think of anything more early autumn than that. In “peace,” listeners can almost feel the years of introspection giving way to self-acceptance as Swift contemplates her future with her current partner. After the exhausting industrial, overproduced sounds of the majority of Reputation, I can only assume “New Year’s Day” was meant to take my breath away. It perfectly captures the sting of having shared your life with someone who is no longer around: “Photo album on the counter, your cheeks were turning red.

Are you a man who doesn’t understand the sadness he feels and doesn’t want to? So there you have it – nearly every single thought I have about the roller-coaster ride that is Reputation. It’s filled with youthful spirit, the sort of song that evokes the bright and innocent adventures of our childhoods. “Something med school did not cover / Someone’s daughter, someone’s mother / Holds your hand through plastic now / Doc, I think she’s crashing out / And some things you just can’t speak about.” Tying the themes together is a mournful prayer for relief, any small epiphany that can make sense of the carnage. Why’d I have to break what I love so much? For never leaving well enough alone “I wounded the good and I trusted the wicked / Clearing the air, I breathed in the smoke “Lucy” is Soccer Mommy’s first song of 2019, and her first release for Loma Vista, which released the song as a 7" single. One of those warm, domestic moments when your long-term happiness seemed more like a given. Future is the only collaborator here who sounds like he isn’t glancing nervously around the room for approval. I look in the mirror I don't wanna be your little pet I could only find a live performance of this song on Youtube, so please refer to the attached Spotify playlist to hear this track in all its recorded glory. Joy’s debut was one of my favorite albums of the year, another record that sparks with the uncertain passion of young adulthood. Since Taylor Swift surprised the world with her eighth studio album folkore on July 24, longtime fans have seen something incredible happening. While last fall’s situation is supposedly “resolved,” hopefully I’m not the only Pinegrove fan who will take the band now with a little grain of salt.

“Holy orange bottles, each night I pray to you / Somewhere in between Reputation and Lover, Taylor learned that both a healthy public image and a healthy relationship mean accepting some of the blame. If anything, let these songs be a reminder that we are lucky – lucky that we feel this deeply, lucky that there is powerful art to touch and protect and break our fragile hearts.

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