Over the past few years, we've seen increasingly blurred boundaries between Caribou, Dan Snaith's main project, and Daphni, his dance music alter-ego. Last year, Caribou released the dance-focused ...

Dan Snaith goes low with a moody, skeletal adaptation of a track from his 2022 album Cherry. But hey, truth in advertising: It’s house music, it’s got pianos, and, most important of all, it’s sad. Not ...

Music can heal you in many ways, but nothing comes close to the salve of sad songs when you’re at your lowest. Imagine Emma, who comes home after a long and stressful day at work, dealing with tight ...

Sadness is generally seen as a negative emotion, but we tend to find it pleasurable in an aesthetic context. What is the nature of pleasure that people experience from listening to sad music?

We’ve come a long way since primitive AI music generators in 2022. Today, AI tools like Suno.ai allow any series of words to become song lyrics, including inside jokes (as you’ll see below). On ...