What is the name for the feeling of nostalgia, loneliness, eeriness and liminality that comes when listening to songs like subwoofer lullaby?

Wander@yiffit.net to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 27 points –

Subwoofer lullaby from Minecraft: https://youtu.be/Gpd85y_iTxY

Please note that I'm not referring to nostalgia from having played Minecraft a long time ago. The song felt this way since I heard it the first time.

Here's another song that has a similar feeling to it https://youtu.be/usjnkZVshLc

Is there such a concept as 'liminal music'?

It's not exactly the same as frisson, I think, but it still makes me feel goosebumps sometimes

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I don't think the English language has a single word for it because it encompasses bits of different emotions. The closest single one I could think of might be "bittersweet".

Sort of a vibrant or vivid melancholy, maybe? Some songs by certain groups do that to me also - that song, "remind me" by royksopp always brings on those feelings. I think that listening to music makes you feel like everything in your body is opening up a little, loosening and relaxing and decompressing.

There's a German term for nostalgia for a place you've never been, fernweh. Perhaps that has some connection?

Path of the Wind from My Neighbour Totoro gives me a similar feeling.