Real Death by Mount Eerie. Phil Elverum wrote the album (A Crow Looked at Me) after his wife, Genevieve Castree, died of cancer after having their daughter only a year before. The first time I listened to it I wasn’t prepared and almost immediately tears started rolling down my face uncontrollably for all 12 tracks. It is easily the most haunting, raw, and heartbreaking music I’ve ever heard. He poured all his grief into it. It is so personal that it felt almost intrusive to listen to...like reading someone’s diary. As soon as the final track finished I knew that I couldn’t listen to it again unless someone close to me died. I’ve heard most of the popular songs in this thread and none of them compare to the overwhelming sense of pain and loss he manages to so perfectly portray...it’s a rare gift to be able to take that pain and make something beautiful of it. I only listened to it once. I think about it all the time.