10 Most Haunting Songs In Rock

Justin Vernon is responsible for making those who were experiencing adolescence during the 2000s, suffer some kind of emotional trauma at the sheer haunting beauty that was Bon Iver's debut album For Emma Forever Ago.

The folk-rock album was the product of three months spent in an isolated cabin during the Wisconsin winter between 2006-2007. Suffering from glandular fever and a particularly potent case of heartbreak, Vernon set to work writing and recording the breakthrough album.

So heavy is the record with heartfelt expressions of unforgotten love, that anyone who is able to listen to it in one sitting ought to be given some kind of medal.

Although the centre focus was given to the single Skinny Love, The Wolves (Act l and ll) was equally as sorrowful, containing one of the more haunting vocal outcries of pain on the record. Vernon certainly took indulging in heartbreak to a new level...

Relying on an obscure tuning and sparely strum chords, Vernon created the perfect canvas to paint his evocative layered vocals across. It really was an example of less is more. All you need to create haunting music is an acoustic guitar, a falsetto voice and a burning sense of loss.