Making a meme out of depression is the shittiest thing my generation has done so far. When you’re not sure whether to fave or reach out to help when someone says that they want to die, we have a problem. But there’s nothing funny about Joy, Departed, even though its often sunny-sounding exterior may say otherwise. Frontman Cameron Boucher uses the album as a bloodletting to confront his demons — struggles with addiction, depression, alienation, and love — but he comes out the other end as a more positive, stronger person, and Joy, Departed encourages us to look inside ourselves and do the same. –James

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