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Dramatic Soulful Songs For Emotional Days
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items Dramatic Soulful Songs for Emotional Days blends haunting, healing music for deep reflection and creativity. With influences from Dramatic Mystical, Great Journaling or Art Songs, and Shadow Folk & Witchy Blues, this playlist captures every emoti...
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Dramatic Mystical
Great Journaling or Art Songs
Shadow Folk & Witchy Blues
Dramatic Mystical
Step into a world where echoes dance with moonlight and every note feels like a whispered secret from another realm. This is not just a playlist—it’s a spell, a story told in chords and crescendos.
For moments when you feel angry, lost and introspective.
In the Still of the Night – Ravn
Once known as Russell Crowe’s wife, she now steps forward as her own force—an extraordinary singer reclaiming her voice. This song is her rebirth—an anthem for anyone who’s ever stood in someone else’s shadow and finally decided to rise. It’s not jus...
Regenerate – Danielle Spencer
Found this song when watching Traitors Season 3- Love this song!
Let the Blood Run Wild - Power-Haus
A slow-blooming anthem that feels like waking up after a long sleep. Her voice carries both fragility and strength, like someone remembering their power in real time.
This Is the Beginning – Ely Eira
A haunting, otherworldly track that pulses with raw emotion and dark energy, perfect for a journey into the depths of self-discovery and mystical transformation.
Dead to Me – Tribal Blood
A powerful, cinematic orchestral piece that builds an intense, sweeping atmosphere, evoking epic moments of triumph and loss.
Requiem for a Tower – London Music Works
This song pulses with an eerie, electrifying energy, creating an unsettling yet captivating vibe that perfectly fits the dark, mysterious journey!
Watch Out – Portals
Try to reimagines the iconic grunge anthem with haunting orchestral intensity, giving it a mystical, cinematic edge that brings both rebellion and raw emotion into the realm of the dramatic and otherworldly.
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Tommee Profitt & Fleurie
Sinéad O'Connor is drenched in intensity and sorrow, her voice cutting through with both anguish and power! So happy I recounted with this song from “Bad Sisters” Apple TV show.
You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart
This song delivers a thunderous, slow-burning build that feels like marching through your own shadows. It begins with tension simmering beneath the surface, then swells into a cinematic storm—perfect for when you’re soul-searching, blocking out memor...
Live and Let Die – Chroma Music
Love the pulsing primal energy and ritualistic rhythm of this song. It feels cinematic, darkly spiritual, and charged with mystery- another song I picked up from the TV show “Traitors” Season 3
Supernatural – Tribal Blood
Dark and intense song can really bring out the raw emotions.
decode – Maggie Lindemann
A is ghostly and thunderous, a slow-burning storm of sound that grips the chest with its relentless pulse—perfect for when you're wrestling with deep emotions that refuse to stay quiet.
Vengeance – Zack Hemsey
This song takes the familiar and flips it into something shadowy and spellbound—slow, tense, and humming with quiet defiance.
Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Lorde
This song is like stepping into some deep, emotional fog—intense, weirdly romantic, and a little unhinged in that haunting, slow-burn way.
I Love You... I'll Kill You – Enigma
Great Journaling or Art Songs
Songs for soul-deep journaling, mindful walks, and getting lost in the quiet joy of creating.
The piano’s build-up is strikingly beautiful—layered, emotional, and full of tension. It climbs with purpose, leading to a revelation that feels both intimate and powerful.
Logos – Ludovico Einaudi
A serene, contemplative melody, which creates a quiet space for introspection, allowing the mind to wander and the heart to follow its own rhythm while creating or reflecting.
Resta Con Me – Marco Decimo & Ludovico Einaudi
A quietly intense and emotionally layered—a sparse, haunting instrumental that gently holds space for reflection, making it an ideal backdrop for journaling, sketching, or any kind of soul-led creative work. I first discovered it in the Squid Game so...
Wife, Husband and 4.56 Billion – Jung Jaeil
I found this song up when watching "Money Heist" on Netflix. A song that is about how time moves so quickly and is limited. Time is a powerful, essential theme. Great to listen to when taking a walk or doing some art.
My Life Is Going On - Cecilia Krull
This song feels like floating in a half-remembered dream—soft, emotional, a little ghostly. It’s the kind of song that doesn’t push, just lingers… like a question you can’t quite answer. Perfect for those quiet, mysterious moods when your heart’s ful...
How Do You Feel – Wave System
Deeply atmospheric and haunting, this track channels a sense of ancient mystery that can draw out emotion and spark creativity.
Elegy – Lisa Gerrard & Patrick Cassidy
How can I not add this song? It’s the ultimate song about a journey—sweeping, emotional, and freeing. The powerful vocals and orchestral build make it perfect for reflection or deep creative expression, capturing the essence of transformation and rel...
Now We Are Free – Lisa Gerrard & Orchestra
Shadow Folk & Witchy Blues
A playlist for those moments when the moonlight feels heavy and the air is thick with secrets.
I found this song from “Bad Sisters” HBO- great song- raw, haunting, poetic energy—it’s earthy and dark!
Devil's Spoke – Laura Marling
This song weaves a delicate yet powerful tapestry of ethereal vocals and orchestral arrangement, creating a hauntingly mystical atmosphere that invites deep reflection and transports you to a world of beauty and shadow
Lille [Live In Dublin] – Lisa Hannigan & Stargaze
This song fits effortlessly into a Shadow Folk & Witchy Blues list with its smoky, sardonic tone and stripped-down rawness—like a late-night confession whispered into a cracked mirror, equal parts vulnerability, defiance, and a hint of dark humor...
Every Time the Sun Comes Up - Sharon Van Etten
This song really makes you feel the pain that you are going through. Cash’s raw and emotional voice evoked all of the feelings of longing, regret, grief.
Hurt – Johnny Cash
This song drifts like a dream through fog and memory, its haunting vocals and slow-burning layers echoing the feel of Shadow Folk & Witchy Blues—mysterious, melancholic, and spell-like.
Wait – M83
This one’s eerie and beautiful, with a quiet intensity that pulls you into something deep and mysterious, like it’s always been part of you.
The Curse – Agnes Obel
This song is a classic, it carries a mystical, almost meditative vibe, blending tribal rhythms and ethereal vocals that pull you into a reflective, otherworldly space.
Return To Innocence – Enigma
This song floats in like a whispered spell—moody, hypnotic, and layered with that signature Enigma mystique. It’s got that shadowy, spiritual feel.
Age Of Loneliness (Carly's Song) – Enigma