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Divorce albums: when music helps you cope with the pain of romantic breakups

2020-11-25T17:34:01.151Z


The new works of Eels and Laura Veirs tread a path of records about heartbreak started by Frank Sinatra with 'In the Wee Small Hours' and traveled by Dylan, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey or Kanye West


Mark Oliver Everett, singer of the band Eels, during a concert.Tamara Rozas / EFE

It is not without its crumb: what for many is considered the first conceptual album in the history of popular music deals with a sentimental break.

It is as if heartbreak, that damn demon, was not only the main engine of music composition but the concept most treated and handled by all kinds of artists.

The album in question is

In the Wee Small Hours

, a Frank Sinatra masterpiece released in 1955. An enveloping album with Frankie's nightly voice singing the sorrows for his break with ...

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