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Backstories: Restrained Sadness // Playlist
Backstories: Restrained Sadness // Playlist
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Establish a melancholy, reflective mood with these sparse yet poignant underscore cues. This essential collection features minimal instrumentation for intimate human stories, and solo-instrument versions that spotlight delicate piano, forlorn guitar, and yearning sustained strings. Subtle and atmospheric arrangements unobtrusively evoke unresolved loss, persistent pain, and long-restrained tears.
TRACK TITLE
ALTS
STEMS
DESCRIPTION
SHOW FEATURED KEYWORDS
LENGTH
OPTIONS
1
Lingering Memories - Lite
+ 4
No synth bass, no guitar. Soft, bereft piano and restrained, heartbroken strings reflect on past sorrows and their consequences in this intimate emotional underscore track.
2:17
2
Lingering Memories - Piano
+ 4
Piano only. Soft, bereft piano and restrained, heartbroken strings reflect on past sorrows and their consequences in this intimate emotional underscore track.
2:17
3
Longing For Home - Minimal
+ 4
No percussion, no piano. Gentle waves of reflective, heartwarming guitar melody flow through this spacious, calming emotional cue.
1:59
4
Suppressed Emotions - Lite
+ 4
No percussion, no synth bass, no FX. Heartfelt, bittersweet piano, pensive electric guitar, and cinematic production give this reflective underscore track a conflicted, thoughtful mood and sweeping depth of feeling.
2:03
5
Burdens - Minimal
+ 5
Piano lead and synth pads only. Forlorn piano and poignant bereft strings commiserate aching sorrow in this delicately heart-wrenching emotional underscore cue.
2:04
6
Burdens - Piano
+ 5
Piano only. Forlorn piano and poignant bereft strings commiserate aching sorrow in this delicately heart-wrenching emotional underscore cue.
2:04
7
Burdens - Ambient
+ 5
Lead strings, synth pads and synth arpeggio only. Forlorn piano and poignant bereft strings commiserate aching sorrow in this delicately heart-wrenching emotional underscore cue.
2:04
8
A Promise Broken - Piano
+ 3
Piano only. This gentle, melancholy, atmospheric track uses reflective piano melodies with supporting ambient guitar and synths to create a moody, somber soundscape.
1:58
9
Thoughtful Observation - Ambient
+ 5
No percussion, no rhythm guitar, less lead guitar. Hopeful guitar chords and ethereal mallet accents create a surreal, reflective atmosphere while wistful strings evoke twinges of longing in this bittersweet emotional indie underscore track.
0:33
10
Somber Recollection - Minimal
+ 4
Acoustic guitar and piano only. Reflective acoustic guitars, piano, and pads backup a yearning, poignant melody on this atmospheric and emotive underscore track.
1:39
11
Somber Recollection - Guitar
+ 4
Guitars only. Reflective acoustic guitars, piano, and pads backup a yearning, poignant melody on this atmospheric and emotive underscore track.
1:39
12
Silver Sky - Minimal
+ 4
Electric guitar, synth pads, piano, and vibraphone only. Reflective electric and gentle acoustic guitar give this indie-inspired lite underscore track a wistful mood and intimate, homey atmosphere.
1:49
13
While We Wait - Guitar
+ 3
Rhythm guitar only. Somber guitar and wistful piano lament bygone losses in this reflective emotional underscore track, evoking poignant yearning.
2:20
14
While We Wait - No Lead
+ 3
No lead guitar. Somber guitar and wistful piano lament bygone losses in this reflective emotional underscore track, evoking poignant yearning.
2:20
15
Falling Rain - Lite
+ 3
No piano, less electric guitar, less guitar swells. Wistful, dreamy electric guitar and delicate piano evoke calm reflection tinged with melancholy in this drifting, atmospheric emotional underscore track.
2:18
16
Regrettable Decisions - Minimal
+ 3
Cutdown, no percussion, no piano, less guitar, less strings. A remorseful electric guitar lead and strummed accents give this emotional underscore track an intimate sound as a reflective, melancholy piano evokes feelings of pain and longing.
1:45
17
Our Lament
+ 3
+ 10
Yearning solo cello echoes above clouds of textural strings, creating a sense of somber reflection in this emotional underscore track.
1:51
18
Mistakes Of The Past - Minimal
+ 4
Focus on drone and lead guitar. Spacious, shimmering guitar textures intertwine with swirling synth pads and mournful, tender piano in this sorrowful, yet peaceful emotional underscore track.
1:56
19
Mistakes Of The Past - Piano
+ 4
Piano and FX only. Spacious, shimmering guitar textures intertwine with swirling synth pads and mournful, tender piano in this sorrowful, yet peaceful emotional underscore track.
1:56
20
Picking Up The Pieces - Guitar
+ 3
Guitar only. Forlorn cinematic guitar and melancholy piano evoke the pain of a difficult loss and the strength to carry on in this reflective, heartfelt emotional underscore cue.
2:28
21
Solitaire - Lite
+ 3
Guitar, strings and synth bass only. This thoughtful, gentle, melancholy track uses soft guitar plucks to create a reflective and somber mood with romantic undertones.
1:35