Other highlights are "A New Anhedonia," which includes country-tinged pedal steel, and "Muchacho's Tune," which features mournful mariachi trumpet lines.
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The Portuguese fado style, featuring mournful ballads usually sung by women, is also popular.
The album closer, "Purity," is mournful indie rock featuring Frank Ocean and a Lauryn Hill sample.
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At 48, with his erect posture, blunt features and mournful ice-blue eyes, he gives off the intimidating air of an aging middleweight boxer who still has a few knockout punches left in him.
Described by Madinger and Easter as "aptly titled", "Crying" features the mournful tones of an esraj, according to Leng, although only the similar-sounding tar shehnai is listed in the album credits.
"Bearding the Lion in His Den" is a fairly subdued sound-photo-light installation that features Tim Buckley's mournful "Song to the Siren," while a selection of drawings, paintings, and collages from the period hint at what Salle's work later became.
Celtic heritage predominates in the latter, which features bagpipes and mournful tones suggestive of a tribe with backs to land and a searching gaze into the misty northern seas.
Many feature choruses of mournful "ohhh"s and rueful "mmm"s.
Writer-director Kate Barker-Froyland's debut feature is a mournful number, held back by an uncertain performance by Flynn and an alienating reverence for the restorative power of middling indie-folk.
