"I haven't found the courage to listen to your last message to me." That's Touché Amoré frontman Jeremy Bolm, partway through his band's new album, Stage Four. He's singing to his mother, who died of cancer in 2014. She's the "you." The whole album is about her, and about Bolm's reactions to her death, and a pretty huge chunk of it is sung directly to her. The one line, about the message, is devastating in part because it's so simple and identifiable. It's not a huge leap to imagine yourself keeping that last message stored on your phone, unheard, constantly stressing that you're going to drop your phone in a puddle and that message is going to remain unheard forever. As "Skyscraper," the album's last song, fades out, we hear that message. Bolm included it on the album. It's not what we want to hear from a message that comes from beyond the grave. It's not some heartfelt burst of emotion, some piece of sage advice. It's just a simple mundane thing about picking up a prescription from CVS. And maybe that's why it resonates the way it does, why I have to take a few seconds to hear myself breathe after Stage Four ends.