One of the most powerful things about music is emotional dimensionality. And in music history, you can point to dozens of songs that teeter back and forth between the quiet and reflective and the sonic and voracious. But in my opinion, few do it as well as Band of Horses’ “The Funeral”. Death is a complicated thing, representing emotions as far apart from each other as the two musical states played out on the record.

“At every occasion, I'll be ready for the funeral.”