He developed a dark turn of mind.
But this duo like the word's more popular meaning too, a tendency elegantly summarised here on "Dark Turn of Mind".
In "Dark Turn of Mind" there is a line, "I see the bones in the river," which has the startling effect of enlarging the narrator's character the way views sometimes open up when one comes over a rise.
But it could have been any number of their slow-burning, complex compositions – Dark Turn of Mind, perhaps, or Tennessee – which, if you accept the no-frills offer, keep you coming back for more and more.
For the person on your list who has a dark turn of mind (to borrow the title of what might be the best song on Gillian Welch's new album), there is FLOGGING A DEAD HORSE: THE LIFE AND WORKS OF JAKE & DINOS CHAPMAN (Rizzoli, $85).
"The way that it goes," "the way that it ends," and "the way it will be" are some of the refrains, and the music feels like being caught in a slow-moving but irresistible force, maybe just the temperamental force of what Welch calls being "blessed with a dark turn of mind".
Gillian Welch's Dark Turn of Mind sits next to a stunning version of folk standard Weep You No More Sad Fountains, that will definitely satisfy the Brians, and a space-pop, bossa nova-flavoured single called The Waning Crescent, that might not.
"Writing "Stop" helped me break out of a dark state of mind I was in.
So friendship still works, I thought from my dark frame of mind.
"L.A.S.H" was written during this tumultuous time, as an attempt to get out of her dark state of mind.
