Theme
Songs about ritual
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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The Stranglers
Golden Brown (Slowed Down Version)
A courtly waltz that dresses up heroin as a devoted lover, using medieval imagery to make dependency sound like romance
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Little Big Town & Kelsea Ballerini
Closing Time
A country reimagining of Semisonic's bar-closing anthem, where the last-call ritual becomes a meditation on endings that quietly seed new beginnings
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ICE NINE KILLS
Play Dead
A metalcore tie-in to the horror game Dead by Daylight that turns its endless survival loop into a meditation on doomed struggle against a hungry unseen force