Magic and Loss (to borrow a line from Lou Reed)

Image: Sire London

When I first heard this beautiful, painful and elegiac recording years ago, I was instantly transported back to a time in my life when I was very young and lost a very dear friend to suicide — I remember upon first learning of this, that I drank too much, passed out (the only time in my life I can remember doing so) and woke up crying, still trying to comprehend it.