But the piece is an hour of unremittingly bleak symphonic songs about death.

This bluesy, somewhat bleak song wasn't such a big hit but arguably represents Dorsey's best work on record.

Dreamy and washed out, a very bleak song.

It is composed of bleak, mid-tempo songs with a heavy emphasis on simpler riffs and melodies.

He chose some of his bleakest songs, new and old, and sang them with woeful intensity.

They have strayed somewhat from the approach taken on their previous efforts and written simpler, bleaker and longer songs.

Many of them are written with collaborators, and they are slightly cozier than the older, bleaker songs that shared the set, but not by much.

Her parched, scarred voice, set off by an ominously subdued band, gave bleak songs a harrowing intimacy.

He described it as "almost certainly one of the bleakest songs we'll hear this year."

And flashes of hope surface even in his bleakest songs.