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A Maine-coast atmosphere of salt air, domestic dread, and the long pressure of keeping a household—and a secret—together. The instrumental first half moves from quiet unease toward storm and reckoning; the vocal second half gives voice to Dolores’s endurance, Vera’s brittle authority, and the cost of telling the truth.
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A Warm Place
Nine Inch Nails · The Downward Spiral (Deluxe Edition)
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2
Vaka
Sigur Rós · Mitt er þitt
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Opening (from "Far From the Madding Crowd")
Craig Armstrong · Imitation Games Vol.2
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Night on Bald Mountain
Modest Mussorgsky · Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition & Night on Bald Mountain
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Totentanz, S. 126
Franz Liszt · The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 7
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Symphony No. 6 in A Minor: III. Scherzo. Wuchtig
Gustav Mahler · Mahler: Symphony No. 6
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The Gravel Road (from "The Village")
James Newton Howard · Imitation Games Vol.4
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The Secret Life of Daydreams
Dario Marianelli · Pride and Prejudice Songbook
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The House of the Rising Sun
The Animals · The House of the Rising Sun: Best of The Animals
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Me and a Gun
Tori Amos · Alternative Rock Hits
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Mother
Pink Floyd · The Wall
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The Mercy Seat - 2010 Remaster
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds · Tender Prey (2010 Remaster)
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The River
Bruce Springsteen · The River
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The Chain
Fleetwood Mac · Greatest Hits (Deluxe Edition)
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Black River
Amos Lee · Amos Lee
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House of the Rising Sun
Nina Simone · NINA SIMONE INTEGRAL 1957- 1962
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The Man That Got Away
Judy Garland · Six Martinis and a Broken Heart to Go (Music for Gracious Living Vol. 1)
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I Am Stretched on Your Grave
Sinéad O'Connor · I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
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Independence Day
Martina McBride · The Way That I Am
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