The Feels

Deep cuts that make you stare at the ceiling.

Every album has one. Maybe two if you're lucky.

It's never the single. It's never the song they play on the radio or put in the trailer. It's track seven. Or the closer. It's the one that runs six, eight, twelve minutes because the band needed every second to take you somewhere a three-minute pop song can't reach.

It starts quiet. Maybe just a guitar, or a piano, or a voice barely holding itself together. Then it builds. Slowly. Layer by layer. Until the thing you're feeling is so large it doesn't fit inside your chest anymore and you have to pull the car over or close your eyes or just sit there and let it wash through you.

These are those songs. The deep cuts. The ones that make you grab someone's arm and say, "You have to hear this."

This is a home for them.

Title Artist Album Year Duration Genre
The Hawthorne Passage Agalloch The Mantle 2002 11:17 Atmospheric Folk-Metal / Post-Rock
Sur l'Autre Rive Je T'attendrai Alcest Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde 2007 7:23 Blackgaze
Stone in Focus Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II 1994 8:17 Ambient Electronic
Pendulum Man Bark Psychosis Hex 1994 10:07 Post-Rock
Drover Bill Callahan Apocalypse 2011 6:15 Indie Folk / Alt-Country
Peace Piece Bill Evans Everybody Digs Bill Evans 1959 6:44 Jazz (Solo Piano)
Black Lake Björk Vulnicura 2015 10:08 Art Pop / Experimental
Basketball Shoes Black Country, New Road Ants From Up There 2022 12:37 Art Rock / Indie Rock
Limousine (MS Rebridge) Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me 2006 7:42 Post-Hardcore / Emo
Ashtray Wasp Burial Kindred EP 2012 11:44 Electronic / UK Bass
Beach Life-in-Death Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) 2018 13:18 Indie Rock
Kate McCannon Colter Wall Colter Wall 2017 5:40 Country / Folk
Cygnus Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas Mariner 2016 14:50 Post-Metal
Another Life D'Angelo and The Vanguard Black Messiah 2014 5:58 Neo-Soul / Psychedelic Soul
Station to Station David Bowie Station to Station 1976 10:11 Art Rock / Krautrock
The Pecan Tree Deafheaven Sunbather 2013 11:38 Atmospheric Black Metal
Transatlanticism Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism 2003 7:53 Indie Rock
He Would Have Laughed Deerhunter Halcyon Digest 2010 7:29 Dream Pop / Neo-Psychedelia
Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 1973 11:08 Classic Rock / Art Rock
Green Eyes Erykah Badu Mama's Gun 2000 10:04 Neo-Soul
Left Alone Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel… 2012 5:52 Avant Singer-Songwriter
Third of May / Ōdaigahara Fleet Foxes Crack-Up 2017 8:42 Chamber Folk / Art Rock
Seigfried Frank Ocean Blonde 2016 5:34 Avant-Soul / Art Pop
Maggot Brain Funkadelic Maggot Brain 1971 10:20 Psychedelic Rock / Funk
The Cinema Show Genesis Selling England by the Pound 1973 11:06 Progressive Rock
I Dream a Highway Gillian Welch Time (The Revelator) 2001 14:39 Americana / Folk
Earthmover Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness 2008 11:00 Post-Punk / Shoegaze
The Trapeze Swinger Iron & Wine Around the Well 2009 9:31 Indie Folk
Weight Isis Oceanic 2002 10:39 Post-Metal
Danko/Manuel Jason Isbell The Dirty South 2004 5:30 Alt-Country / Southern Rock
Goodbye Sky Harbor Jimmy Eat World Clarity 1999 16:13 Emo / Indie Rock
Emily Joanna Newsom Ys 2006 12:05 Chamber Folk
Decades Joy Division Closer 1980 6:15 Post-Punk
Meet Me in the City Junior Kimbrough All Night Long 1992 6:50 Hill Country Blues
Gone Kanye West Late Registration 2005 5:33 Hip-Hop / Orchestral Rap
A Coral Room Kate Bush Aerial 2005 6:08 Art Pop / Chamber Pop
Hello Earth Kate Bush Hounds of Love 1985 6:12 Art Pop / Chamber Pop
Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city 2012 12:03 West Coast Hip-Hop / Jazz Rap
Starless King Crimson Red 1974 12:18 Progressive Rock
Lake Charles Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road 1998 5:17 Americana / Alt-Country
...Til the Cops Come Knockin' Maxwell Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite 1996 6:55 Neo-Soul
Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice on Ice, Alright Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West 1997 7:14 Indie Rock
Christmas Steps Mogwai Come On Die Young 1999 10:10 Post-Rock
Hold Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand MONO Pilgrimage of the Soul 2021 12:21 Post-Rock
Early Sunsets Over Monroeville My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love 2002 5:24 Post-Hardcore / Emo
The Last You'll Know Neurosis Times of Grace 1999 9:14 Post-Metal / Atmospheric Sludge
Oh Comely Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 1998 8:18 Lo-fi Folk-Punk
The Past Is a Grotesque Animal of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? 2007 11:53 Indie Pop
13th Floor / Growing Old OutKast Aquemini 1998 5:44 Southern Hip-Hop
Foreigner Pallbearer Heartless 2017 12:39 Progressive Doom
Greetings to Idris Pharoah Sanders Journey to the One 1980 7:30 Spiritual Jazz
Dogs Pink Floyd Animals 1977 17:05 Progressive Rock
How to Disappear Completely Radiohead Kid A 2000 5:56 Experimental Rock
Ashes Are Burning Renaissance Ashes Are Burning 1973 11:22 Symphonic Prog
Washer Slint Spiderland 1991 8:50 Post-Rock / Post-Hardcore
Blue Skied An' Clear Slowdive Souvlaki 1993 6:07 Shoegaze / Dream Pop
Konstantine Something Corporate Unreleased (live staple) 2002 9:37 Emo / Piano Rock
Farewell Transmission Songs: Ohia The Magnolia Electric Co. 2003 7:22 Alt-Country / Indie Folk
They Won't Go When I Go Stevie Wonder Fulfillingness' First Finale 1974 5:59 Soul / Gospel
New Paris Strand of Oaks HEAL 2014 6:19 Indie Rock
Impossible Soul Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz 2010 25:34 Chamber Pop / Electronic
New Grass Talk Talk Laughing Stock 1991 9:40 Art Rock / Post-Rock
Epilogue The Antlers Hospice 2009 5:11 Indie Rock
The Same Deep Water as You The Cure Disintegration 1989 9:19 Gothic Rock / Dream Pop
The End The Doors The Doors 1967 11:43 Psychedelic Rock
Dungeoneering Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet 2006 8:29 Ambient / Noise
Kathleen Townes Van Zandt Our Mother the Mountain 1969 4:30 Folk / Country
Madame George Van Morrison Astral Weeks 1968 9:45 Folk-Jazz / Art Rock
Bogatyri We Lost The Sea Departure Songs 2015 11:40 Post-Rock / Post-Metal
The Angel and the One Weezer Weezer (Red Album) 2008 7:10 Alt-Rock