Imagine sitting quietly after school. The day is cloudy. You feel a little sad, but nothing bad has happened. You are just thinking about many things. This feeling is called melancholy. It is a soft ...

It would be too easy to shunt indie-pop idea machine Japanese Breakfast’s records into categories — here’s the sad one, the science fiction one, the happy one — especially given the title of her ...

I have a playlist called “I Heart Melancholy,” and I love listening to it so much it hurts. In a good way. And I know you know what I’m talking about, don’t you? Melancholy gets a bad rap. In music, ...