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Sometimes, the last song says everything. Essays on the greatest (and not so great) album closers. How they’re made, what they mean, and why endings stick.
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Just do it on repeat
Charli XCX '365' (brat - 2024)
Feel this burning, love of mine
Beach House - 'Take Care' (Teen Dream - 2010)
These abstract, wordless movements
Björk - 'Headphones' (Post - 1995)
Has your band begun to rust?
Neil Young with Crazy Horse - 'Cowgirl in the Sand' (Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, 1969)
Forget your past
LCD Soundsystem - 'Home' (This Is Happening - 2010)
I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect...
Happy Mondays - 'Harmony' (Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches - 1990)
20 years on that hill
PJ Harvey - 'The Colour of The Earth' (Let England Shake - 2011)
Oh Manchester, so much to answer for
The Smiths - 'Suffer Little Children' (The Smiths - 1984)
(The Pope mumbles something in Latin) Sure, that’s easy for you to say! But you’re over there…yeah, I know…and...
'Thanks for The Pepperoni' - George Harrison (All Things Must Pass - 1971)