Scott Kelly - The Wake

2008 solo album from this founding member of Neurosis featuring seven stark, mournful songs performed on acoustic guitar. With only the guitar and his voice, Kelly crams the lilt, lift, and longing of several lives well lived into five-some-odd minutes of every song. Not only would this record not have been possible at any other point in his life, or ours, for that matter, than now, it also seems to suggest the shape of beyond-now: thin and on fire.