Category: Playlist

While this is my usual one-playlist-per-month, it doesn’t actually feel like the playlist of this month to me. That goes to the one my sister and cousin and I put together to play while we trekked over to the camping spot we used to go to as kids. I won’t be sharing that one here, though; it’s what we played while we scattered dad’s ashes, it’s a bit too personal.

Instead, here’s the regular monthly playlist; check it out here, or see the individual tracks below:

Oklahoma Smokeshow – Zach Bryan on Summertime Blues – EP

Hotel Bible – Max McNown on Night Diving

Medusa – Cameron Whitcomb on Medusa – Single

Drunk Again – Aidan Canfield on Rivertown – EP

Heartbreaker – Hayden Blount on Heartbreaker – Single

Rattlesnake – Jack Van Cleaf & Zach Bryan on JVC

Options – Cameron Whitcomb on Clean Country 2025

Azalea Place – Max McNown on Night Diving

There’s A Rhythmn – Bon Iver on SABLE, fABLE

Since I Fell – Aidan Canfield on Since I Fell – Single

St. Helens Alpenglow – Max McNown on St. Helens Alpenglow – Single

Alright Now – Hayden Calnin on Alright Now – Single

Virgo – TROY on Virgo – Single

Flicker – Yoste on Flicker – Single

Something Beautiful and Bright – SYML on Nobody Lives Here

Follows You – Michael Marcagi on Midwest Kid – EP

Sincerely, Your Son – Waylon Wyatt on Sincerely, Your Son – Single

Take Me Away (Stripped) – Noah Brigden on Take Me Away (Stripped) – Single

Silence Underneath – Luke Beling on This Parlor Trick Life

Nowhere to Go – Luke Beling on This Parlor Trick Life

Hikikomori – Jack Van Cleaf on JVC

Livin’ Missing You – Hayden Blount on Livin’ Missing You – Single

Build – Sleeping At Last on Build – Single

Saturn – Sleeping At Last on 2016 Sampler

Fiending – Noah Brigden on I’m Fine – Single

In the Nick of Time – Waves_On_Waves, Sonic Shades Of Blue & Waves On Waves Orange Crush on In the Nick of Time – Single

The War Was With Myself – honestav on hara-kiri (Deluxe)

Calliope Prelude – Lucy Dacus on Forever Is A Feeling

Lose You – Zach John King on Slow Down – EP

life is beautiful – heylucas on hey

Basement beds – SYML on Basement beds – Single

Destroy – Sleeping At Last on Destroy – Single

American Trail – Dylan Gossett on Westward

I Found (with Freya Ridings) – Amber Run on I Found (with Freya Ridings) – Single

Hard Time Lover (feat. Chance Peña) – Gryffin on Hard Time Lover (feat. Chance Peña) – Single

Find a Way – Harrison Storm on Find a Way – Single

Slow Down – Zach John King on Slow Down – EP

Carolina – Blake Whiten on Carolina – Single

Life – Jack Van Cleaf on JVC

Out Of The Blue – Waylon Wyatt on Out Of The Blue – EP

Klonopin – Vic Mensa on Hooligans – EP¹

Aries – TROY on Aries – Single

Whiskey Tears – Pardyalone on FUHLK MUSIC VOL. 2 – Single

Couch Potato – Jack Van Cleaf on JVC

Normal Day – Brendan Walter on Normal Day – Single²

Good Old Days – Daniel Leggs on Good Old Days – Single

God Loves Weirdos – Mt. Joy on Hope We Have Fun

Green – Jack Van Cleaf on JVC

Space in My Heart (Original Version) – Enrique Iglesias on Space in My Heart (Original Version) – Single³

The Funeral (2025 Edit) – Gryffin & Band of Horses on The Funeral (2025 Edit) – Single

Hot Mess – Landon Smith on Reckon So – EP

Minus Sixty One – Woodkid on WOODKID FOR DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH

heaven will have to wait – flora cash on heaven will have to wait – EP

RED FLAG. – Kesha on .

Bloodline – Alex Warren & Jelly Roll on Bloodline – Single⁴

Piñata – Jack Van Cleaf on JVC

I Am Digital, I Am Divine – Erin LeCount on I Am Digital, I Am Divine – EP

Led Me – Elskavon on Panoramas

Hole In The Wall – Zach John King on Slow Down – EP

Accusations – Anella on 831: The Series

Pocket (montreal) – EDEN on gggiiiiirrrrlllll – EP

Sea Shanty Medley – Home Free on Sea Shanty Medley – Single⁵

gggiiiiirrrrlllll – EDEN on gggiiiiirrrrlllll – EP

LOVE FOREVER. – Kesha on .

Dead to Me – Hayden Blount on Dead to Me – Single

TRASHMAN. – Kesha on . (…)

Snow – Matt Ryder on Snow – Single

You and Me – heylucas on hey

Rearranged – honestav on hara-kiri (Deluxe)

Better Days – Anella on 831: The Series

1. I kept getting the opening “hooligans!” stuck in my head, so here we are. ↩
2. everything about this track feels like a commentary on the fact that I am aging ↩
3. I like that, 20 years later, this has a similar (though, fortunately, less rape-y) vibe/plot to Escape. ↩
4. I’ve accepted that I just don’t know what genre Jelly Roll actually works in, and have done nothing to attempt to fix this confusion. ↩
5. Sometimes you just need some a cappella in your life ↩

Texted my friend to ask “what’s the opposite of ‘yassification’, that’s what my taste in music did this month” — it’s very heavy on the sad-boy country. Track listing below, full playlist available here.

Oklahoma Smokeshow – Zach Bryan on Summertime Blues – EP

Hotel Bible – Max McNown on Night Diving

Medusa – Cameron Whitcomb on Medusa – Single

Drunk Again – Aidan Canfield on Rivertown – EP

Heartbreaker – Hayden Blount on Heartbreaker – Single

Rattlesnake – Jack Van Cleaf & Zach Bryan on JVC

Options – Cameron Whitcomb on Clean Country 2025

Everything Is Peaceful Love – Bon Iver on SABLE, fABLE

GFU – Landon Smith on GFU – Single

Azalea Place – Max McNown on Night Diving

There’s A Rhythmn – Bon Iver on SABLE, fABLE

Since I Fell – Aidan Canfield on Since I Fell – Single

St. Helens Alpenglow – Max McNown on St. Helens Alpenglow – Single

If Only I Could Wait (feat. Danielle Haim) – Bon Iver on SABLE, fABLE

Alright Now – Hayden Calnin on Alright Now – Single

Virgo – TROY on Virgo – Single

Flicker – Yoste on Flicker – Single¹

Something Beautiful and Bright – SYML on Nobody Lives Here

I’ll Be There – Bon Iver on SABLE, fABLE

Stars Fading In Constellation – HurricaneTurtle on Stars In Constellation – Single

Follows You – Michael Marcagi on Midwest Kid – EP

Sincerely, Your Son – Waylon Wyatt on Sincerely, Your Son – Single²

Take Me Away (Stripped) – Noah Brigden on Take Me Away (Stripped) – Single

Silence Underneath – Luke Beling on This Parlor Trick Life

To Love Again – Blonde Maze & Lizzy Land on Asleep in My Head (feat. POLIÇA) – EP

Etta James (feat. Adrian Ross) – Moonrunner83 on Etta James – Single

Nowhere to Go – Luke Beling on This Parlor Trick Life

Hikikomori – Jack Van Cleaf on JVC³

Livin’ Missing You – Hayden Blount on Livin’ Missing You – Single

Build – Sleeping At Last on Build – Single

Saturn – Sleeping At Last on 2016 Sampler⁴

The Woman Who Raised Me – Billy Raffoul on The Woman Who Raised Me / Get Along – Single

Fiending – Noah Brigden on I’m Fine – Single⁵

In the Nick of Time – Waves_On_Waves, Sonic Shades Of Blue & Waves On Waves Orange Crush on In the Nick of Time – Single⁶

blue jean – Hazlett on blue jean – Single

The War Was With Myself – honestav on hara-kiri (Deluxe)⁷

Forever Is A Feeling – Lucy Dacus on Forever Is A Feeling

Calliope Prelude – Lucy Dacus on Forever Is A Feeling⁸

Screaming In The Night – Korine on A Flame In The Dark

Lose You – Zach John King on Slow Down – EP

life is beautiful – heylucas on hey

If I Could Take It (inspired by Caleb from Love and Deepspace) – Sora Sayuri on Written In The Stars (A Love and Deepspace Album)

Carousel – Anella on 831: The Series

Basement beds – SYML on Basement beds – Single

Destroy – Sleeping At Last on Destroy – Single

American Trail – Dylan Gossett on Westward⁹

No One Dies From Love – Tove Lo on Dirt Femme (Extended Cut)

NO BETTER TIME THAN THIS – Pardyalone on NO BETTER TIME THAN THIS – Single

SWISH – Lil Nas X on SWISH – Single

Bad Apple – Cameron Whitcomb on Bad Apple – Single¹⁰

Popstar of Your Dreams – Kai Bosch on Popstar of Your Dreams – EP¹¹

I Found (with Freya Ridings) – Amber Run on I Found (with Freya Ridings) – Single¹²

Pay The Price – Korine on A Flame In The Dark

Day One (feat. Dijon & Flock of Dimes) – Bon Iver on SABLE, fABLE

Begin Again – Duce, Yasmin Jane & JEANS on Begin Again – Single

Me and You (feat. Vancouver Sleep Clinic) – Forester on Me and You (feat. Vancouver Sleep Clinic) – Single

Get Along – Billy Raffoul on The Woman Who Raised Me / Get Along – Single

Hard Time Lover (feat. Chance Peña) – Gryffin on Hard Time Lover (feat. Chance Peña) – Single

Last Time – Pardyalone on Last Time – Single

Modigliani – Lucy Dacus on Forever Is A Feeling

Find a Way – Harrison Storm on Find a Way – Single

The Slur Song – Bigfoot’s Biggest Fan on The Slur Song – Single¹³

Slow Down – Zach John King on Slow Down – EP

Conquest Of Spaces (2025 Rework) – Woodkid on Conquest Of Spaces (2025 Rework) – Single

Carolina – Blake Whiten on Carolina – Single

Life – Jack Van Cleaf on JVC

Any Love of Any Kind (feat. Bryce Dessner) – Woodkid & Bryce Dessner on WOODKID FOR DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH

Out Of The Blue – Waylon Wyatt on Out Of The Blue – EP

1. I always love new Yoste ↩
2. For the best that this is a “dear mom” song because otherwise it’d hurt too much to listen to, still ↩
3. I think this is my favorite addition this month, just really lodged in my brain ↩
4. “How rare and beautiful it truly is that we exist” ↩
5. One of my most sung-along tracks this month, the chorus is just really catchy ↩
6. Something about this feels like the music dad used to play when we went camping in the summer. ↩
7. Does a great job of catching that heart-wrenching feeling ↩
8. My favorite off this album, weirdly. ↩
9. “Figure out the hard way’s the best way to win” ↩
10. Hilarious lyrics. ↩
11. Also hilarious lyrics. ↩
12. “Oh weird I wonder why they’re doing a new version of this song right no- oh no it’s ten years old” ↩
13. Gotta have one thing in there to celebrate Pride! ↩

At one point I did some data visualization of my playlists; it’d be interesting to do that again at the end of this year, because I’m sure there’ll be some Trends visible there. As per the new norm, you can listen to the whole playlist here.

Oklahoma Smokeshow – Zach Bryan on Summertime Blues – EP

Towers – Zach Bryan on The Great American Bar Scene

Hotel Bible – Max McNown on Night Diving

i Am A Mountain – Coldplay on Moon Music (Full Moon Edition)

Medusa – Cameron Whitcomb on Medusa – Single

Drunk Again – Aidan Canfield on Rivertown – EP

Blue Jean Baby – Zach Bryan on Blue Jean Baby – Single

Heartbreaker – Hayden Blount on Heartbreaker – Single

Sagittarius – TROY on Sagittarius – Single

Rattlesnake – Jack Van Cleaf & Zach Bryan on JVC

Domini Lost – IcoS on Domini Lost – Single

Alien Cowboy – Gordi on Like Plasticine

to the wilder (from “DEATH STRANDING 2 : ON THE BEACH” Soundtrack) – Woodkid on to the wilder (from “DEATH STRANDING 2 : ON THE BEACH” Soundtrack) – Single

Options – Cameron Whitcomb on Clean Country 2025

Everything Is Peaceful Love – Bon Iver on SABLE, fABLE

Well, Me 2 – Pardyalone on FUHLK MUSIC VOL. 1 – Single

GFU – Landon Smith on GFU – Single

93 – flora cash on i’m not okay – Single

Azalea Place – Max McNown on Night Diving

DELUSIONAL. – Kesha on .

There’s A Rhythmn – Bon Iver on SABLE, fABLE

Canadian – Billy Raffoul on Canadian – Single

YIPPEE-KI-YAY. – Kesha on .

Since I Fell – Aidan Canfield on Since I Fell – Single

St. Helens Alpenglow – Max McNown on St. Helens Alpenglow – Single

If Only I Could Wait (feat. Danielle Haim) – Bon Iver on SABLE, fABLE

Alright Now – Hayden Calnin on Alright Now – Single

No Idol (ruff cut) – N4MESM on No Idol (ruff cut)¹

Hexie Mountains – Orville Peck on Bronco

Virgo – TROY on Virgo – Single

From – Bon Iver on SABLE, fABLE

Breeze – Lonely in the Rain on Breeze – Single

Waterfall – Elderbrook & Ahmed Spins on Waterfall – Single

Flicker – Yoste on Flicker – Single

High Dive – Emmit Fenn on High Dive – Single

When We Was – MÒZÂMBÎQÚE & Vertefeuille on When We Was

Maze – Donbor on Solace – EP

Slave Shift (demo) – N4MESM on Slave Shift (demo)²

Something Beautiful and Bright – SYML on Nobody Lives Here

I’ll Be There – Bon Iver on SABLE, fABLE

CONTAR – JC Reyes & Ozuna on CONTAR – Single

Stars Fading In Constellation – HurricaneTurtle on Stars In Constellation – Single³

Follows You – Michael Marcagi on Midwest Kid – EP

Sincerely, Your Son – Waylon Wyatt on Sincerely, Your Son – Single⁴

Angel – Kai Bosch on Angel – Single

Heat Ignited – Tep No on Heat Ignited – Single

Remember Me – Duce on Remember Me – Single

Take Me Away (Stripped) – Noah Brigden on Take Me Away (Stripped) – Single

Sweet Fruit – Erin LeCount on I Am Digital, I Am Divine – EP

Silence Underneath – Luke Beling on This Parlor Trick Life

Northern Thunder – Zach Bryan on The Great American Bar Scene

1. I need to update the artist name here, he’s changed it again. ↩
2. M’s really validating my instinct to have local copies of things. ↩
3. I’m used to HurricaneTurtle being instrumental/synthwave type stuff, so hearing singing really caught me off guard at first. ↩
4. filed under “oof, ouch, my bones” ↩

Back to sharing links and doing a bit of annotation this time, but still a short playlist. Listen to the whole thing here, or see my lightly-annotated track list:

Oklahoma Smokeshow – Zach Bryan on Summertime Blues – EP

Towers – Zach Bryan on The Great American Bar Scene

Hotel Bible – Max McNown on Night Diving

i Am A Mountain – Coldplay on Moon Music (Full Moon Edition)

Medusa – Cameron Whitcomb on Medusa – Single

Drunk Again – Aidan Canfield on Rivertown – EP

Old Neptune, He’s Roaring – Brian Sauvé on Hearth Songs

Wake Me up (Country Version) – Cooper Alan & Aloe Blacc on Wake Me up (Country Version) – Single

Blue Jean Baby – Zach Bryan on Blue Jean Baby – Single

Heartbreaker – Hayden Blount on Heartbreaker – Single

Ordinary – Alex Warren on Ordinary – Single

Trauma Kid – Majik on Trauma Kid – Single¹

SOTTOMARINI – Mahmood on SOTTOMARINI – Single

Street Level – Jon Bryant on Street Level – Single

Have to Know – Daniel Leggs on Have to Know – Single

Sagittarius – TROY on Sagittarius – Single

Rattlesnake – Jack Van Cleaf & Zach Bryan on JVC

Domini Lost – IcoS on Domini Lost – Single

Alien Cowboy – Gordi on Like Plasticine

to the wilder (from “DEATH STRANDING 2 : ON THE BEACH” Soundtrack) – Woodkid on to the wilder (from “DEATH STRANDING 2 : ON THE BEACH” Soundtrack) – Single

Bad Cameo – James Blake & Lil Yachty on Bad Cameo

Options – Cameron Whitcomb on Clean Country 2025

AWARDS SEASON – Bon Iver on SABLE, fABLE

Everything Is Peaceful Love – Bon Iver on SABLE, fABLE

Like I Do – Dylan Gossett on Like I Do – Single

Well, Me 2 – Pardyalone on FUHLK MUSIC VOL. 1 – Single

GFU – Landon Smith on GFU – Single

93 – flora cash on i’m not okay – Single²

Azalea Place – Max McNown on Night Diving

Missing Man – James Blake & Lil Yachty on Bad Cameo

DELUSIONAL. – Kesha on .

There’s A Rhythmn – Bon Iver on SABLE, fABLE

Canadian – Billy Raffoul on Canadian – Single

i’m not okay – flora cash on i miss you – Single

DREAMBOY – Lil Nas X on DREAMBOY – Single

1. I’m deeply sad to not have a link here; Majik appears to have pulled it from Apple Music, and his various social media accounts have vanished again. It was nice while it lasted.
   … he said, before going down a bit of a rabbit hole; there’s a new TikTok username, which links to a SoundCloud account with a couple tracks. Not the same sound as Majik, but still worth listening to. ↩
2. This is the catchy one this month. ↩

No links or annotations this time around; as with last month, I’ve spent the majority of March being too ill to really engage with music as much as I’d like. You can listen to the whole playlist here.

Sad Girls (feat. Rema) – Clean Bandit & French The Kid on Sad Girls (feat. Rema) – Single

Oklahoma Smokeshow – Zach Bryan on Summertime Blues – EP

Towers – Zach Bryan on The Great American Bar Scene

Hotel Bible – Max McNown on Night Diving

i Am A Mountain – Coldplay on Moon Music (Full Moon Edition)

Medusa – Cameron Whitcomb on Medusa – Single

Bears & Wolves – Lilith Max on Bears & Wolves – Single

Drunk Again – Aidan Canfield on Rivertown – EP

Old Neptune, He’s Roaring – Brian Sauvé on Hearth Songs

Wake Me up (Country Version) – Cooper Alan & Aloe Blacc on Wake Me up (Country Version) – Single

TRANS AM – Jeremiah Kane on TRANS AM – Single

Blue Jean Baby – Zach Bryan on Blue Jean Baby – Single

Heartbreaker – Hayden Blount on Heartbreaker – Single

ONANON – Killen. on ONANON – Single

Silver Spoon – Erin LeCount on Silver Spoon – Single

Clockwork – Masked Wolf on The Devil Wears Prada but God Wears Gucci

22s – KOKO, Nina Chuba & Dillistone on 22s – Single

Dear Me (From The Original Documentary “Diane Warren: Relentless”) – Kesha on Dear Me (From The Original Documentary “Diane Warren: Relentless”) – Single

Ordinary – Alex Warren on Ordinary – Single

Trauma Kid – Majik on Trauma Kid – Single

Opportunity – MÒZÂMBÎQÚE & Vertefeuille on When We Was

SOTTOMARINI – Mahmood on SOTTOMARINI – Single

In Your Eyes – Korine on In Your Eyes – Single

Too Young To Be Jaded – Tep No on Catharsis – EP

Street Level – Jon Bryant on Street Level – Single

Seraph – Lilith Max on Seraph – Single

Have to Know – Daniel Leggs on Have to Know – Single

Bittersweet (feat. Rosie Darling) – Audien & Shallou on Bittersweet (feat. Rosie Darling) – Single

Sagittarius – TROY on Sagittarius – Single

Love Is an Ocean – The Midnight on Love Is an Ocean – Single

Missyouso – Mascolo on Missyouso – Single

See How It Ends – Anderholm on See How It Ends – Single

Rattlesnake (feat. Zach Bryan) – Jack Van Cleaf & Zach Bryan on JVC

Summer of Love (Vip Edit) – James Carter, Leony & Sam Fischer on Summer of Love (Vip Edit) – Single

Domini Lost – IcoS on Domini Lost – Single

Alien Cowboy – Gordi on Like Plasticine

Anhedonia – Korine on Anhedonia – Single

To the wilder (from “DEATH STRANDING 2 : ON THE BEACH” Soundtrack) – Woodkid on To the wilder (from “DEATH STRANDING 2 : ON THE BEACH” Soundtrack) – Single

This is a bit of a weird one, to me. I spent most of the month very sick, and at least half of it, even listening to music was just… a lot. And while I still managed to put together something of a playlist for the month, it’s a bit misleading; a lot of the time, even when I felt up to listening to music, I was doing a lot of “hit shuffle on the playlist, then scrub through the queue and remove a bunch of stuff that still felt like Too Much.”

Still, though, there was a bit of music in the month. If you’d like the whole playlist in one go, here’s the link, or do the piecemeal-with-occasional-notes style below:

Machine Learning – J. Maya on Machine Learning – Single

Sad Girls (feat. Rema) – Clean Bandit & French The Kid on Sad Girls (feat. Rema) – Single

O Superman (For Massenet) – Laurie Anderson on Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology (Remastered)

Oklahoma Smokeshow – Zach Bryan on Summertime Blues – EP

Dicked Down in Dallas – Trey Lewis on Dicked Down in Dallas – Single

Midnight Drive – HurricaneTurtle on Midnight Drive – EP

Towers – Zach Bryan on The Great American Bar Scene

Sorry 4 The Wait – Lil Wayne on Sorry 4 The Wait

Up, Out, and Leaving – Hayden Blount on Up, Out, and Leaving

The Emptiness Machine – LINKIN PARK on From Zero

Overflow – LINKIN PARK on From Zero

Great Mother (feat. Neco Novellas) – HAEVN on Wide Awake (Deluxe)

Hotel Bible – Max McNown on Night Diving

i Am A Mountain – Coldplay on Moon Music (Full Moon Edition)

Breathe – RÜFÜS DU SOL on Inhale / Exhale

How About a Drink? – Billy Raffoul on How About a Drink? – Single

Medusa – Cameron Whitcomb on Medusa – Single

Bears & Wolves – Lilith Max on Bears & Wolves – Single

Rust – Ben Böhmer on Bloom

need dat boy – Lil Nas X on need dat boy – Single

Sometimes We Come Back – THE RUNAWAY WILD on Sometimes We Come Back – Single

Drunk Again – Aidan Canfield on Rivertown – EP

Breathe, Be Happy – Tep No on Breathe, Be Happy – Single

Old Neptune, He’s Roaring – Brian Sauvé on Hearth Songs

Plead the Fifth – Cooper Alan on Plead the Fifth – Single

I’m Good (Blue) – David Guetta & Bebe Rexha on I’m Good (Blue) – Single

Crazy – Doechii on Crazy – Single

Crossfire – Waves_On_Waves, SHKHR & Waves On Waves Armada on Crossfire – Single

Falls Down – James Carter & Lucas Estrada on Falls Down – Single

Wake Me up (Country Version) – Cooper Alan & Aloe Blacc on Wake Me up (Country Version) – Single¹

TRANS AM – Jeremiah Kane on TRANS AM – Single²

Living In The Sun (feat. okafuwa) – DALEXO on Living In The Sun (feat. okafuwa) – Single

The Abyss – The Weeknd & Lana Del Rey on Hurry Up Tomorrow

Fright Night – THE RUNAWAY WILD on Fright Night – Single

Open Hearts – The Weeknd on Hurry Up Tomorrow

Blue Jean Baby – Zach Bryan on Blue Jean Baby – Single

Heartbreaker – Hayden Blount on Heartbreaker – Single

Pantheon Passion – Harper Quinn, Michael FAY & Fuat Sunay on Pantheon Passion – Single

ONANON – Killen. on ONANON – Single

São Paulo – The Weeknd & Anitta on Hurry Up Tomorrow

Silver Spoon – Erin LeCount on Silver Spoon – Single³

Clockwork – Masked Wolf on The Devil Wears Prada but God Wears Gucci

22s – KOKO, Nina Chuba & Dillistone on 22s – Single

Revolú – Rauw Alejandro & Feid on Cosa Nuestra

Dear Me (From The Original Documentary “Diane Warren: Relentless”) – Kesha on Dear Me (From The Original Documentary “Diane Warren: Relentless”) – Single

Hit The Ground – Poul & Alberto Ciccarini on Hit The Ground – Single

Always Remember Us This Way – Poul, Alberto Ciccarini & Alexia Di Lorenzo on Always Remember Us This Way – Single

Ordinary – Alex Warren on Ordinary – Single⁴

Dreaming – Otrebor on Dreaming – Single

Mona Lisa (feat. Kendrick Lamar) – Lil Wayne on Tha Carter V

4X4 – Travis Scott on 4X4 – Single

Chasing Paradise – Kygo & OneRepublic on Chasing Paradise – Single

hey baby – Famestelenia on hey baby – Single

1. This feels like the kind of thing that I should be a little ashamed that I love. ↩
2. Something about sampling old ads just hits really well, I dunno. ↩
3. Slowly picking up the lyrics to this one, “silver spoons and butter knives” just sticks right in my head. ↩
4. Kept thinking to myself “shoutout to the music history classes for helping me understand all these Catholicism references.” ↩

Sitting here in the depths of winter, keenly aware of the fact that my instinct in winter is to listen to depression music, and that’s really not what I need right now. Instead, this playlist is me making an active effort to have happy, or at least upbeat, music around.

Don’t tell anyone, but I had to come back and add this after initially scheduling this post, because I absolutely did forget this time: the link to the full playlist.

Machine Learning – J. Maya on Machine Learning – Single

Pink Pony Club – Chappell Roan on Pink Pony Club – Single

Sad Girls (feat. Rema) – Clean Bandit & French The Kid on Sad Girls (feat. Rema) – Single

O Superman (For Massenet) – Laurie Anderson on Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology (Remastered)

Oklahoma Smokeshow – Zach Bryan on Summertime Blues – EP

Dicked Down in Dallas – Trey Lewis on Dicked Down in Dallas – Single

Cruel Unusual – Otherwish on iii, Empty Spaces

Midnight Drive – HurricaneTurtle on Midnight Drive – EP

Heaven On Earth – Hayden Blount on Heaven On Earth – Single

Towers – Zach Bryan on The Great American Bar Scene

Sorry 4 The Wait – Lil Wayne on Sorry 4 The Wait

East Side of Sorrow – Zach Bryan on Zach Bryan

Bitter Coffee – Make Night on Bitter Coffee – Single

Desilusão (MTG) [feat. Loirin prod] – Bruno & Marrone, Zé Felipe & Mc Jacaré on Desilusão (MTG) [feat. Loirin prod] – Single

Happy Trails – Orville Peck on Happy Trails – Single

Up, Out, and Leaving – Hayden Blount on Up, Out, and Leaving

Astronaut In The Ocean – Masked Wolf on Astronaut In The Ocean – Single

Carom – Fyfe & Iskra Strings on Carom – Single

LIGHT AGAIN! – Lil Nas X on LIGHT AGAIN! – Single

Born Slippy (Nuxx) – Underworld on 1992 – 2012

I think about it all the time featuring bon iver – Charli xcx & Bon Iver on Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat

THINGS BEHIND THINGS BEHIND THINGS – Bon Iver on SABLE, – EP

Man In Finance (G6 Trust Fund) – Girl On Couch & Billen Ted on Man In Finance (G6 Trust Fund) – Single

Something’s in the Wind – Masked Wolf on The Devil Wears Prada but God Wears Gucci

Stained – LINKIN PARK on From Zero

Flirting with a Burnout – Vokon on Flirting with a Burnout – Single

The Emptiness Machine – LINKIN PARK on From Zero

Auld Lang Syne – Sleeping At Last on Auld Lang Syne – Single

Qué Pasaría… – Rauw Alejandro & Bad Bunny on Cosa Nuestra

Big Girls Don’t Cry (Personal) – Fergie on The Dutchess

Tarot – Bad Bunny & JHAYCO on Un Verano Sin Ti

Everything is romantic featuring caroline polachek – Charli xcx & Caroline Polachek on Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat

Overflow – LINKIN PARK on From Zero

Hungover in a Deer Stand – Dylan Marlowe on Mid-Twenties Crisis

Memories – Babbage on Memories – Single

light dark light – Fred again.. & Angie McMahon on two more days – Single

Great Mother (feat. Neco Novellas) – HAEVN on Wide Awake (Deluxe)

Hotel Bible – Max McNown on Hotel Bible – Single

i Am A Mountain – Coldplay on Moon Music (Full Moon Edition)¹

Breathe – RÜFÜS DU SOL on Inhale / Exhale

Rise Up Again – Nathan Ball on Lost Track of Time – EP

How About a Drink? – Billy Raffoul on How About a Drink? – Single

That’s So True – Gracie Abrams on The Secret of Us (Deluxe)

Medusa – Cameron Whitcomb on Medusa – Single

Tell Me Why – Masked Wolf & Kota the Friend on The Devil Wears Prada but God Wears Gucci

Hold On Me – Kygo & Sandro Cavazza on Hold On Me – Single

Circuits – Fyfe & Iskra Strings on Carom – Single

Callback – HurricaneTurtle on Tunes of Now – EP

Bears & Wolves – Lilith Max on Bears & Wolves – Single²

Rust – Ben Böhmer on Bloom³

need dat boy – Lil Nas X on need dat boy – Single⁴

Una Velita – Bad Bunny on Una Velita – Single

Sometimes We Come Back – THE RUNAWAY WILD on Sometimes We Come Back – Single⁵

Much Ado About Nothing – Waxahatchee on Tigers Blood

Drunk Again – Aidan Canfield on Rivertown – EP

Breathe, Be Happy – Tep No on Breathe, Be Happy – Single⁶

Smoke – Deepend, Peachy Pete & Outliers on Smoke – Single

Old Neptune, He’s Roaring – Brian Sauvé on Hearth Songs

little mystery – Fred again.. & John Martyn on two more days – Single

Way Back Home – Ed Prosek, Portair & Driftwood Choir on Way Back Home – Single

King – Deepend, LAST CALL & Horxata on King – Single

Strangers – Kenya Grace on Strangers – Single

Dancing Like We Do – Poul, Alberto Ciccarini & Josh Reflex on Dancing Like We Do – Single

Plead the Fifth – Cooper Alan on Plead the Fifth – Single⁷

Khé? – Rauw Alejandro & Romeo Santos on Cosa Nuestra

I’m Good (Blue) – David Guetta & Bebe Rexha on I’m Good (Blue) – Single⁸

Crazy – Doechii on Crazy – Single⁹

1. Remembering how much of early Coldplay was definitely Depression Music, and then listening to this happy tune, I love that for them. ↩
2. Good one to listen to the words; it’s not happy, it’s angry, and she’s really telling a story well. ↩
3. Possibly my favorite addition this month? I dunno why this one clicked for me as much as it did. ↩
4. Just when I was starting to think “I haven’t listened to Lil Nas X for a while…” he drops some new music, and it’s great. ↩
5. I’ve listened to about half the lyrics of this one, I just tune in for bits and pieces, and while it’s not happy, it sure is upbeat in that 80s funky synth-wavey way. Who doesn’t want a horror movie in the form of a bop? ↩
6. Tep No always feels sorta like it should be played during a guided meditation or a yoga class, and the name fit the vibe I was going for this month. ↩
7. Gloriously chaotic. ↩
8. I honestly love pivoting “Blue” into being a party anthem like this. ↩
9. I did specify, “happy, or least upbeat”, and this is… one of those things. ↩

Spent almost the entire month various kinds of ill, so this is a short one – didn’t particularly feel like scrubbing through new music, most of the time. But hey, it’s got a healthy dose of Christmas music in with my usual nonsense.

And, lest I forget, here’s a link to the entire playlist.

Machine Learning – J. Maya on Machine Learning – Single

Carson – Harry Strange on Carson – Single

Louder – Kygo, Julia Michaels & Chance Peña on Louder – Single

Pink Pony Club – Chappell Roan on Pink Pony Club – Single

Sad Girls (feat. Rema) – Clean Bandit & French The Kid on Sad Girls (feat. Rema) – Single

O Superman (For Massenet) – Laurie Anderson on Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology (Remastered)

Oklahoma Smokeshow – Zach Bryan on Summertime Blues – EP

Chariot – The Midnight on Chariot – Single

Dicked Down in Dallas – Trey Lewis on Dicked Down in Dallas – Single

Cruel Unusual – Otherwish on iii, Empty Spaces

Watch Me Trying – Harry Strange on Watch Me Trying – EP

Manifest – Russ on Manifest – Single

Desperate Guy – Isak Danielson on Desperate Guy – Single

Midnight Drive – HurricaneTurtle on Midnight Drive – EP

Oh My Love – ConKi on Oh My Love – Single

Heaven On Earth – Hayden Blount on Heaven On Earth – Single

Either Way – Thorin Loeks on Either Way – Single

the warmth – Paris Paloma on Cacophony

Towers – Zach Bryan on The Great American Bar Scene

Sorry 4 The Wait – Lil Wayne on Sorry 4 The Wait

East Side of Sorrow – Zach Bryan on Zach Bryan

Totoro – Yoste on All’s Well and I’m Worse Than Ever

Royal We – Janani K. Jha on Royal We – Single

Way Down We Go – Deepend & Stephen Puth on Way Down We Go – Single

Bitter Coffee – Make Night on Bitter Coffee – Single

For a Long Time – Star Pitchee on For a Long Time – Single

Codeine – LYOD & Alexis Troy on Codeine – Single

Dancing On My Own – Calum Scott on Only Human (Deluxe)

Desilusão (MTG) [feat. Loirin prod] – Bruno & Marrone, Zé Felipe & Mc Jacaré on Desilusão (MTG) [feat. Loirin prod] – Single

365 – Charli xcx on BRAT

Happy Trails – Orville Peck on Happy Trails – Single

Up, Out, and Leaving – Hayden Blount on Up, Out, and Leaving

Afloat – Isak Danielson on Truly Yours, Isak

Astronaut In The Ocean – Masked Wolf on Astronaut In The Ocean – Single

After Dark x Sweater Weather – mikeeysmind on After Dark x Sweater Weather – Single

Heartbeat – Childish Gambino on Camp

Spring breakers featuring kesha – Charli xcx & Kesha on Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat

Apollo – SYML on Infinity – EP

Infinity – Jaymes Young on Feel Something

Something Like This – Thorin Loeks on Something Like This – Single

Carom – Fyfe & Iskra Strings on Carom – Single

BABYDOLL (Speed) – Ari Abdul on BABYDOLL (Speed) – Single

The Places We’ll Go – Ross Copperman on The Places We’ll Go – Single

LIGHT AGAIN! – Lil Nas X on LIGHT AGAIN! – Single

Born Slippy (Nuxx) – Underworld on 1992 – 2012

I think about it all the time featuring bon iver – Charli xcx & Bon Iver on Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat

Mid-Twenties Crisis – Dylan Marlowe on Mid-Twenties Crisis

My World – Calum Scott on My World – Single

Disease (The Antidote Live) – Lady Gaga on Disease – Single

THINGS BEHIND THINGS BEHIND THINGS – Bon Iver on SABLE, – EP

Neverita – Bad Bunny on Un Verano Sin Ti

Goodbye (feat. Lyse) [Slow Version] – Feder on Goodbye (feat. Lyse) [Slow Version] – Single

Man In Finance (G6 Trust Fund) – Girl On Couch & Billen Ted on Man In Finance (G6 Trust Fund) – Single

O Come, O Come Emmanuel – Sleeping At Last on Christmas Collection 2016

Silent Night – Sleeping At Last on Christmas Collection 2016

Mary, Did You Know? – Straight No Chaser on I’ll Have Another…Christmas Album

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas – Straight No Chaser on I’ll Have Another…Christmas Album

Lully Lullay (Coventry Carol) – Straight No Chaser on I’ll Have Another…Christmas Album¹

O Holy Night (Live) – Tracy Chapman on A Very Special Christmas Live From Washington D.C.²

O Come, All Ye Faithful – Pentatonix on A Pentatonix Christmas

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – Pentatonix on A Pentatonix Christmas

Mary, Did You Know? – Pentatonix on That’s Christmas To Me³

White Winter Hymnal – Pentatonix on That’s Christmas To Me

Silence (feat. Khalid) – Marshmello on Silence (feat. Khalid) – Single

Thinkin Bout You (Frank Ocean Cover) – Midnight Pool Party on NOON // 199

Carol of the Bells – Lindsey Stirling on Warmer in the Winter

Losers (feat. Jelly Roll) – Post Malone on F-1 Trillion (Long Bed)

Something’s in the Wind – Masked Wolf on The Devil Wears Prada but God Wears Gucci

Stained – LINKIN PARK on From Zero

Village Wedding – Chanticleer on Colors of Love

Christmas Eve / Sarajevo (Instrumental) [Remastered] – Trans-Siberian Orchestra on The Ghosts of Christmas Eve

Belong – RÜFÜS DU SOL on Inhale / Exhale

Body On Me – SAINt JHN on Body On Me – Single

Flirting with a Burnout – Vokon on Flirting with a Burnout – Single

The Emptiness Machine – LINKIN PARK on From Zero

Flying at Night – Laurie Anderson on Amelia

That’s Christmas To Me – Pentatonix on That’s Christmas To Me

Auld Lang Syne – Sleeping At Last on Auld Lang Syne – Single⁴

1. I don’t actually like this cover very much – I want this song to be a slower and… sadder, almost? This is too upbeat. ↩
2. Tracy Chapman is a treasure. ↩
3. Two different versions of this in here, and I keep being wrong about which one is which, somehow. ↩
4. Added New Year’s Eve, because what am I gonna do, not sing this a bunch on New Year’s Eve? ↩

Listen, before you get into this playlist, I’d just like to say: we all deal with the stress of the election in our own way. My way just happened to be “open YouTube, search for ‘tiktok thirst trap compilation’, and switch off my brain.” Which I mention because there’s a clear trend in where I picked up music this month.

Machine Learning – J. Maya on Machine Learning – Single

Carson – Harry Strange on Carson – Single

Louder – Kygo, Julia Michaels & Chance Peña on Louder – Single

Pink Pony Club – Chappell Roan on Pink Pony Club – Single

All-American Boy – Steve Grand on All American Boy

5ever – EDEN on 5ever – Single

Sad Girls (feat. Rema) – Clean Bandit & French The Kid on Sad Girls (feat. Rema) – Single

O Superman (For Massenet) – Laurie Anderson on Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology (Remastered)

Oklahoma Smokeshow – Zach Bryan on Summertime Blues – EP

Chariot – The Midnight on Chariot – Single

Timeless – The Weeknd & Playboi Carti on Timeless – Single

Dicked Down in Dallas – Trey Lewis on Dicked Down in Dallas – Single

Cruel Unusual – Otherwish on iii, Empty Spaces

Watch Me Trying – Harry Strange on Watch Me Trying – EP

Chalk 1.3.3 (2017 Export Wav) – Flume & Jim-E Stack on Arrived Anxious, Left Bored

Manifest – Russ on Manifest – Single

Desperate Guy – Isak Danielson on Desperate Guy – Single

I’M DROWNING – BERWYN on WHO AM I

Midnight Drive – HurricaneTurtle on Midnight Drive – EP

Von dutch – Charli xcx on BRAT

Dancing In The Flames – The Weeknd on Dancing In The Flames – Single

Oh My Love – ConKi on Oh My Love – Single

Heaven On Earth – Hayden Blount on Heaven On Earth – Single

We’re Ok – Yoste on We’re Ok – Single

Maps – Yoste on Maps – Single

90 days – Dimside on 90 days – Single

Either Way – Thorin Loeks on Either Way – Single

the warmth – Paris Paloma on Cacophony

Towers – Zach Bryan on The Great American Bar Scene

Sweat – Isak Danielson on Sweat – Single

Friday Night Song – EDEN on Friday Night Song – EP¹

Talk talk featuring troye sivan – Charli xcx & Troye Sivan on Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat

Sorry 4 The Wait – Lil Wayne on Sorry 4 The Wait

East Side of Sorrow – Zach Bryan on Zach Bryan

Haku – Yoste on All’s Well and I’m Worse Than Ever

Afterglow – Goth Babe on Oregon Coast – Single

Totoro – Yoste on All’s Well and I’m Worse Than Ever

Lonely – Yoste on All’s Well and I’m Worse Than Ever

Ecstasy Homosexuality (Radio Edit) – The Irrepressibles on Ecstasy Homosexuality – EP

Royal We – Janani K. Jha on Royal We – Single

Ever Know – HAEVN on Wide Awake

Familiar Halls – Echo Wolf on Familiar Halls – Single

Flowers (Demo) – Miley Cyrus on Endless Summer Vacation

As You Want – CRi on Hold You EP

Way Down We Go – Deepend & Stephen Puth on Way Down We Go – Single

Rennen – SOHN on Rennen

Homebody – Billy Raffoul on Homebody – Single

Bitter Coffee – Make Night on Bitter Coffee – Single

What Have You Done To Me? – Imogen Heap on What Have You Done To Me? – Single²

For a Long Time – Star Pitchee on For a Long Time – Single

Codeine – LYOD & Alexis Troy on Codeine – Single

Pressure – RÜFÜS DU SOL on Inhale / Exhale

If This Is It – Russ on If This Is It – Single

Big Boy (Slowed Reverb) – It’s Cuffing Season and All the Girls Are Leaving – Farizki on Big Boy – It’s Cuffing Season and All the Girls Are Leaving – Single³

Dancing On My Own – Calum Scott on Only Human (Deluxe)

Desilusão (MTG) [feat. Loirin prod] – Bruno & Marrone, Zé Felipe & Mc Jacaré on Desilusão (MTG) [feat. Loirin prod] – Single⁴

365 – Charli xcx on BRAT

Happy Trails – Orville Peck on Happy Trails – Single⁵

Up, Out, and Leaving – Hayden Blount on Up, Out, and Leaving

Part Of You – Elderbrook on Another Touch

Afloat – Isak Danielson on Truly Yours, Isak

Astronaut In The Ocean – Masked Wolf on Astronaut In The Ocean – Single

After Dark x Sweater Weather – mikeeysmind on After Dark x Sweater Weather – Single

Roses (Imanbek Remix) – SAINt JHN on Roses (Imanbek Remix) – Single

Technologic – Daft Punk on Human After All

Safe and Sound – Capital Cities on Capital Cities – EP

Ride It – Regard on Ride It – Single

Heartbeat – Childish Gambino on Camp

Barking – Ramz on Barking – Single

Love Myself – Cameron Whitcomb on Quitter – EP

Spring breakers featuring kesha – Charli xcx & Kesha on Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat

One More Before I Go – Elderbrook on Another Touch

Apollo – SYML on Infinity – EP⁶

Infinity – Jaymes Young on Feel Something

Something Like This – Thorin Loeks on Something Like This – Single

Carom – Fyfe & Iskra Strings on Carom – Single

BABYDOLL (Speed) – Ari Abdul on BABYDOLL (Speed) – Single

Levitating – RÜFÜS DU SOL on Inhale / Exhale

The Places We’ll Go – Ross Copperman on The Places We’ll Go – Single

LIGHT AGAIN! – Lil Nas X on LIGHT AGAIN! – Single

Born Slippy (Nuxx) – Underworld on 1992 – 2012

I think about it all the time featuring bon iver – Charli xcx & Bon Iver on Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat

Mid-Twenties Crisis – Dylan Marlowe on Mid-Twenties Crisis

Wait For You – Elderbrook & Carlita on Another Touch

Conrad – SOHN on Rennen

My World – Calum Scott on My World – Single

Better Me For You – Max McNown on Night Diving

Disease (The Antidote Live) – Lady Gaga on Disease – Single⁷

THINGS BEHIND THINGS BEHIND THINGS – Bon Iver on SABLE, – EP

Never Over – Elderbrook on Another Touch

Breed – The Acid & RY X on Breed – Single

Neverita – Bad Bunny on Un Verano Sin Ti

Goodbye (feat. Lyse) [Slow Version] – Feder on Goodbye (feat. Lyse) [Slow Version] – Single

Our World – Farlight on Our World – Single

Man In Finance (G6 Trust Fund) – Girl On Couch & Billen Ted on Man In Finance (G6 Trust Fund) – Single⁸

And, down here at the bottom, strategically placed just to make sure people see that there are these little notes below it, here’s the Apple Music playlist link.

1. “I’m going to sing my Friday night song.” “What’s it about?” “Friday.” “Oh-“ is a hilarious way to start a song. ↩
2. New Imogen Heap? In 2024? It’s more likely than you think! ↩
3. I still can’t decide if I actually like this song, there’s some bits where the ‘slowed’ part feels like it wasn’t done quite right. ↩
4. I haven’t at any point looked up what the lyrics are and tried to translate them, I just enjoy that the vibe of this song is “absolutely filthy” ↩
5. I’d call this song “a gateway drug to Christmas music.” ↩
6. This… feels like a song my dad would’ve liked. ↩
7. This month has featured new Lady Gaga, new Bon Iver, and new Imogen Heap. Wild. ↩
8. All I can think with this song is “girl, you don’t actually want to date that man, he’s gonna be toxic as hell.” ↩

I think this may be the longest one of these I’ve ever posted? Gosh, it’s almost like I’m trying to distract myself from something.

On a happier(?) note, a reader¹ asked me to try sharing a link to the entire playlist on Apple Music, in addition to the per-song thing I usually do, so I’m making an attempt at that; please enjoy the naming scheme I use when rotating these playlists out.

Hallelujah Anyway – Luke Sital-Singh on Hallelujah Anyway – Single

Machine Learning – J. Maya on Machine Learning – Single

Under The Surface – Sultan + Shepard & Nathan Nicholson on Endless, Dawn

Let Me Drown – Orville Peck on Bronco

Daytona Sand – Orville Peck on Bronco

Carson – Harry Strange on Carson – Single

Bones Shake – Hazlett on Bones Shake – Single

Believe Again – Luke Sital-Singh on Believe Again – Single

The Age of Believing – Aron Wright on The Age of Believing – Single

I Don’t Want To Lie (living room floor version) – Yoste on I Don’t Want To Lie (living room floor version) – Single

Stay High – One Room on Lagoona

Stay Out of Trouble – OPLURE on Stay Out of Trouble – Single

I AM BLACK – BERWYN on I AM BLACK – Single

Little Bit of Magic – Thorin Loeks on Little Bit of Magic – Single

Little Homies – Vince Staples on Dark Times

Louder – Kygo, Julia Michaels & Chance Peña on Louder – Single

Far As I Can Go – Ian Harrison on Far As I Can Go – Single

Neptune – Beauvois on Dimensions – EP

Asymmetry – Axel Flóvent on Away From This Dream

Zzz – EDEN on Zzz – Single

Pink Pony Club – Chappell Roan on Pink Pony Club – Single

places to be – Fred again.., Anderson .Paak & CHIKA on places to be – Single

My Kink Is Karma – Chappell Roan on The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess

Swallows – Bailey & Lonely in the Rain on Swallows – Single

Tamly Maak – Amr Diab on Tamally Maak

Good God, Hot Damn – Hayden Blount on Good God, Hot Damn – Single

ten – Fred again.., Jozzy & Jim Legxacy on ten days

All-American Boy – Steve Grand on All American Boy

5ever – EDEN on 5ever – Single

Sad Girls (feat. Rema) – Clean Bandit & French The Kid on Sad Girls (feat. Rema) – Single

28 – Zach Bryan on The Great American Bar Scene

Moon River – Aquilo on A Quiet Invitation To A Hard Conversation

Edge of Saturday Night – The Blessed Madonna & Kylie Minogue on Godspeed

i think you can save me – Dimside on i think you can save me – Single

Dance (‘Til You Love Someone Else) – Sam Smith on Love Goes

My Mind (Now) – Paris Paloma on My Mind (Now) – Single

Devil on My Shoulder – Dylan Marlowe on Mid-Twenties Crisis

Calamity Song – The Decemberists on The King Is Dead

Sabrina (I Am A Party) – Fred again.. on Actual Life (April 14 – December 17 2020)

Instant Crush (feat. Julian Casablancas) – Daft Punk on Random Access Memories

Eat The Acid – Kesha on Gag Order

O Superman (For Massenet) – Laurie Anderson on Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology (Remastered)

The Great American Bar Scene – Zach Bryan on The Great American Bar Scene

Oklahoma Smokeshow – Zach Bryan on Summertime Blues – EP²

peace u need – Fred again.. & Joy Anonymous on ten days

.seven – Fred again.. on ten days

Fólk fær andlit – Hildur Guðnadóttir on Fólk fær andlit – Single

where will i be – Fred again.. & Emmylou Harris on ten days

Silence in the Suburbs – George Pippen on Silence in the Suburbs (Reimagined) – EP

Chariot – The Midnight on Chariot – Single

Timeless – The Weeknd & Playboi Carti on Timeless – Single

Willfully Blind – Max McNown on Willfully Blind

When Evil Follows – Midnight Danger on When Evil Follows – Single

Dicked Down in Dallas – Trey Lewis on Dicked Down in Dallas – Single³

Midnight Ride (feat. Kylie Minogue & Diplo) [Sofi Tukker Remix] – Orville Peck on Midnight Ride (feat. Kylie Minogue & Diplo) [Sofi Tukker Remix] – Single

can’t sleep – Dimside on can’t sleep – Single

What If Nothing Breaks? – Snow Patrol on The Forest Is The Path⁴

Shorter Than A Night – Petit Biscuit on Discipline

Dancing In The Dark Alone – Deepend, Carston & Horxata on Dancing In The Dark Alone – Single

Cruel Unusual – Otherwish on iii, Empty Spaces

just stand there – Fred again.. & Soak on ten days⁵

The View Between Villages – Noah Kahan on Stick Season (We’ll All Be Here Forever)

Pocket (Montreal) – EDEN on Friday Night Song – EP

Hold You – CRi on Hold You EP

When No One’s Watching – Charles Fauna on L I M B O

Fade Into You – Vide on Fade Into You – Single

fear less – Fred again.. & Sampha on ten days

NATURAL – Cameron Hawthorn on NATURAL – Single

Watch Me Trying – Harry Strange on Watch Me Trying – EP

Samradh Samradh – The Gloaming on The Gloaming⁶

Permanently Lonely (From “Skincare”) – Orville Peck on Permanently Lonely (From “Skincare”) – Single

I Don’t Wanna Leave – RÜFÜS DU SOL on Surrender

Say Adieu – Lonely in the Rain & Yorina on Say Adieu – Single

Somewhere – Harry Strange on Somewhere – Single

Like Whiskey – Dixon Dallas on Happy Anniversary

Chalk 1.3.3 (2017 Export Wav) – Flume & Jim-E Stack on Arrived Anxious, Left Bored

Bystander – robrobrob & Tailor on Save Me – Single

Loading – James Blake on Playing Robots Into Heaven

Manifest – Russ on Manifest – Single⁷

Desperate Guy – Isak Danielson on Desperate Guy – Single

My Youth Is Fading Away – Petit Biscuit on Discipline

Driftwood Choir – Ed Prosek, Portair & Driftwood Choir on Driftwood Choir – Single

Oak Island – Zach Bryan on The Great American Bar Scene

I’M DROWNING – BERWYN on WHO AM I

Sunrises (feat. Shaun Holton) – Max Cruise on Sunrises⁸

glow – Fred again.., Duskus, Four Tet & Skrillex on ten days

Midnight Drive – HurricaneTurtle on Midnight Drive – EP

Von dutch – Charli xcx on BRAT⁹

Hold Me In The Fire – Snow Patrol on The Forest Is The Path

Dancing In The Flames – The Weeknd on Dancing In The Flames – Single

Oh My Love – ConKi on Oh My Love – Single

S P E Y S I D E – Bon Iver on SABLE, – EP

always – Dimside on always – Single

Heaven On Earth – Hayden Blount on Heaven On Earth – Single

On Your Own – Shallou & ARDY on 24, summer – EP

Doblexxó – J Balvin & Feid on Rayo

Travelers – Echo Wolf & jacket. on Travelers – Single

Ocean Waves (feat. Sheilu) – SRTW & nourii on Ocean Waves (feat. Sheilu) – Single

We’re Ok – Yoste on We’re Ok – Single

Years That Fall – Snow Patrol on The Forest Is The Path

Maps – Yoste on Maps – Single

90 days – Dimside on 90 days – Single

Either Way – Thorin Loeks on Either Way – Single

the warmth – Paris Paloma on Cacophony

i saw you – Fred again.. on ten days

Towers – Zach Bryan on The Great American Bar Scene

Sweat – Isak Danielson on Sweat – Single

backseat – Fred again.., The Japanese House & Scott Hardkiss on ten days

Friday Night Song – EDEN on Friday Night Song – EP

Talk talk featuring troye sivan – Charli xcx & Troye Sivan on Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat

Sorry 4 The Wait – Lil Wayne on Sorry 4 The Wait

Heavy Is the Crown – LINKIN PARK on From Zero

East Side of Sorrow – Zach Bryan on Zach Bryan¹⁰

Surrender – Kygo & Fred Well on KYGO

Haku – Yoste on All’s Well and I’m Worse Than Ever

Going Deep – Yardhand on Move 2 – EP

Nothingleft – Yoste on All’s Well and I’m Worse Than Ever

hourglass – Le Youth, Lexer & Bailey on & – EP

All My Fault – Swimming Paul & Thals on All My Fault – Single

Sympathy is a knife – Charli xcx on BRAT

The River – Ed Prosek, Portair & Driftwood Choir on The River – Single

Afterglow – Goth Babe on Oregon Coast – Single

Isla – Yoste on All’s Well and I’m Worse Than Ever

Totoro – Yoste on All’s Well and I’m Worse Than Ever

AETERNA – Coldplay on Moon Music¹¹

Lonely – Yoste on All’s Well and I’m Worse Than Ever

Teenage Luv – Lost In Pacific & Hadar Sopher on Teenage Luv – Single

Ecstasy Homosexuality (Radio Edit) – The Irrepressibles on Ecstasy Homosexuality – EP

Break My Love – RÜFÜS DU SOL on Inhale / Exhale

Royal We – Janani K. Jha on Royal We – Single

1. Apparently I have readers? Hello, readers! ↩
2. I vehemently disagree with some of the Lyrics Genius analysis of this song. Not enough to make an account and write up my own, but still. ↩
3. I don’t know how I feel about the fact that I know all the lyrics to this already. ↩
4. Good for singing/sobbing along to in the shower. ↩
5. I’ve got a few songs in various playlists that I just skip immediately right now, but can’t bring myself to remove. This is one. “Haven’t heard your voice for a while” ↩
6. Pretty sure I stole this off my friends’ wedding playlist. It’s a vibe. ↩
7. “That’s what I call foresight, that’s what I call manifesting” is fun to sing along with. ↩
8. I’ve finally given in and made an entire separate playlist for this vibe of track. Y’know, the kind of thing that you’d hear as background music during a car chase scene set in 1980s LA? ↩
9. Yes, yes, I know, I am extremely late to the brat summer ↩
10. A little bit too on-the-nose at the moment, but when I’m in the mood for it, a good one. ↩
11. New Coldplay? In 2024? Weird in several ways. ↩

My dad died this month.

When I joined choir, when I got a music scholarship and started the music major, we all joked that nobody knew where the signing talent came from. Wasn’t on mom’s side, wasn’t on dad’s. It’s still a mystery.

It wasn’t until now that I realized, there’s no question of where I got my love of music. Growing up, my dad always had music going. A big hi-fi system in his living room, a rack of CDs beside it; binders upon binders of CDs in the backseat of his car, and my sister and I often had the opportunity to play DJ. He gave me my first MP3 player, and later my first iPod. When ripping CDs was all the rage, he gave me a hard drive with hundreds of gigabytes of music on it — he and his friends had, apparently, been ripping every CD they could get their hands on for months, and that was the fruit of their labors. I got to experience the infinite selection of streaming music a decade before anyone else did.

He wasn’t a perfect man by any stretch of the imagination, but he was my dad, and he loved me.

So here’s to you, dad. I love you, and wherever you are, I hope you’ve got a good sound system.

Hallelujah Anyway – Luke Sital-Singh on Hallelujah Anyway – Single

Call Your Mom – Noah Kahan on Stick Season (We’ll All Be Here Forever)

Machine Learning – J. Maya on Machine Learning – Single

Beneath Oak Trees – Dylan Gossett on No Better Time – EP

Can I Ask – Yoste on A Place To Exist

Under The Surface – Sultan + Shepard & Nathan Nicholson on Endless, Dawn

Boys Of Faith (feat. Bon Iver) – Zach Bryan on Boys Of Faith – EP

Kalahari Down – Orville Peck on Bronco¹

Let Me Drown – Orville Peck on Bronco

Daytona Sand – Orville Peck on Bronco

Want You (living room floor version) – Yoste on Want You (living room floor version) – Single

One More Light – LINKIN PARK on One More Light

Carson – Harry Strange on Carson – Single

Bones Shake – Hazlett on Bones Shake – Single

Believe Again – Luke Sital-Singh on Believe Again – Single

The Age of Believing – Aron Wright on The Age of Believing – Single

I Don’t Want To Lie (living room floor version) – Yoste on I Don’t Want To Lie (living room floor version) – Single

How Far Will We Take It? – Orville Peck & Noah Cyrus on Stampede

Stay High – One Room on Lagoona

Stay Out of Trouble – OPLURE on Stay Out of Trouble – Single

I AM BLACK – BERWYN on I AM BLACK – Single

Little Bit of Magic – Thorin Loeks on Little Bit of Magic – Single

Little Homies – Vince Staples on Dark Times

Midnight Ride – Orville Peck, Kylie Minogue & Diplo on Midnight Ride – Single

Louder – Kygo, Julia Michaels & Chance Peña on Louder – Single

Far As I Can Go – Ian Harrison on Far As I Can Go – Single

Can’t Just Be Me – Vincent Mason on Can’t Just Be Me – EP

Macbeth – Max McNown on Macbeth – Single

Coming Home – ORACLE & Holochrome on Coming Home – EP

Mother – Allman Brown on Second Son, Pt. 2 – EP

Neptune – Beauvois on Dimensions – EP

Kaya – Yoste on Kaya – Single

Asymmetry – Axel Flóvent on Away From This Dream

Zzz – EDEN on Zzz – Single

Better Without You – Dixon Dallas on Happy Anniversary

Pink Pony Club – Chappell Roan on Pink Pony Club – Single

I Love You Always Forever – Donna Lewis on Now In a Minute²

JOYRIDE – Kesha on JOYRIDE – Single

places to be – Fred again.., Anderson .Paak & CHIKA on places to be – Single

Rhinestone Cowboy – Orville Peck, TJ Osborne, Waylon Payne & Fancy Hagood on Stampede³

Ever You’re Gone – Orville Peck & Teddy Swims on Stampede

My Kink Is Karma – Chappell Roan on The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess

Love Me Back – Max McNown on Love Me Back – Single

Swallows – Bailey & Lonely in the Rain on Swallows – Single

Tamly Maak – Amr Diab on Tamally Maak

Good God, Hot Damn – Hayden Blount on Good God, Hot Damn – Single

Until The End – Yoste on Until The End – Single

Circles – Sines of Summer on Circles – Single

Time Well Wasted – The Fray on The Fray Is Back – EP⁴

ten – Fred again.., Jozzy & Jim Legxacy on ten days

All-American Boy – Steve Grand on All American Boy

Sleeping All Alone – Dixon Dallas on Happy Anniversary

Faded Evergreen – Ed Prosek, Portair & Driftwood Choir on Faded Evergreen – Single

Noor Al Ain – Amr Diab on Noor Al Ain

5ever – EDEN on 5ever – Single

Sad Girls (feat. Rema) – Clean Bandit & French The Kid on Sad Girls (feat. Rema) – Single

Majuy – Hayden Calnin on All Kinds of Light

American Nights – Zach Bryan on The Great American Bar Scene

28 – Zach Bryan on The Great American Bar Scene

Will You? – The Irrepressibles on Be Wild – Single

Bass Boat – Zach Bryan on The Great American Bar Scene⁵

Moon River – Aquilo on A Quiet Invitation To A Hard Conversation

Where Are We Now? – Orville Peck & Mickey Guyton on Stampede

Want You To Want It – Aquilo on A Quiet Invitation To A Hard Conversation

Don’t Look Down – The Fray on The Fray Is Back – EP

Edge of Saturday Night – The Blessed Madonna & Kylie Minogue on Godspeed

i think you can save me – Dimside on i think you can save me – Single

Dance (‘Til You Love Someone Else) – Sam Smith on Love Goes

Back At Your Door – Orville Peck & Debbii Dawson on Stampede

Heavy – Peach PRC on Heavy – Single

High Tide – Hayden Blount on Good God, Hot Damn – Single

Glowing – Matias Roden on The Plea EP

California Dreamin’ – Diana Krall on Wallflower (Deluxe Edition)

My Mind (Now) – Paris Paloma on My Mind (Now) – Single

Nobody’s Soldier – Hozier on Unaired – EP

I Forgot What’s Love – Petit Biscuit & Cub Sport on Discipline

Chasing Cars – Sleeping At Last on Covers, Vol. 2⁶

OUTLAW – Cameron Hawthorn on OUTLAW – Single

Version of Me – Harry Strange on Version of Me – Single

Devil on My Shoulder – Dylan Marlowe on Mid-Twenties Crisis

Northern Thunder – Zach Bryan on The Great American Bar Scene⁷

The Way Back – Zach Bryan on The Great American Bar Scene

July – Hozier on Unaired – EP

This Feeling – Axel Flóvent on Away From This Dream

I Had Some Help (feat. Morgan Wallen) – Post Malone on I Had Some Help (feat. Morgan Wallen) – Single

5AM – Amber Run on 5AM (Deluxe) WEB

Calamity Song – The Decemberists on The King Is Dead

Sabrina (I Am A Party) – Fred again.. on Actual Life (April 14 – December 17 2020)

Instant Crush (feat. Julian Casablancas) – Daft Punk on Random Access Memories

Lazy (12: 00 Version) – Elliot Moss & RUBIO on Lazy (12: 00 Version) – Single

Eat The Acid – Kesha on Gag Order

Hurt – Johnny Cash on American IV: The Man Comes Around

Little Talks – Of Monsters and Men on My Head Is An Animal

Sumarið sem aldrei kom – Jónsi on Shiver⁸

O Superman (For Massenet) – Laurie Anderson on Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology (Remastered)

Your Hand In Mine – Explosions in the Sky on Friday Night Lights [Original Movie Soundtrack]⁹

1. Went to this concert with my sister. This was the one we both cried through—Peck introduced it as the feeling of homesickness, and not being able to go back. Yeah. Yeah. ↩
2. music blasting with the top off the jeep over in central Oregon ↩
3. I’m putting together a playlist for the celebration of life, and both this and the original version are on there. I think he would’ve liked this cover. ↩
4. I considered putting How to Save a Life on this playlist but couldn’t do it. Time Well Wasted doesn’t have the same poignancy; “and I would have stayed up with you all night, had I known how to save a life” still hurts too much.
   That whole album is… the feeling of walking down the hall into his office in the house he lived in when I was in elementary school. ↩
5. I don’t actually know if dad listened to this album at all. I hope he did. It was on my list of things to tell him about next time I talked to him; it seemed like it’d be right up his alley. ↩
6. This song was already gonna make me sad, so what the hell, why not have the Sleeping At Last version, his covers always turn of the depression quotient. ↩
7. This was the first country song I could start listening to again. It’s the feeling of fond remembrance, not just sad. ↩
8. This is just some good “put your headphones in, crank up the volume, and cry” music. ↩
9. I had tickets to see Explosions in the Sky when they were in Portland, and went to the concert fully expecting to cry when they played Your Hand in Mine. Turns out they did an extended version! More crying than planned.
   I love this band, and very clearly remember dad playing this at night sometimes. I was insomniac as hell as a kid, and this was one of the things that could help me get to sleep. ↩

Lotta country in this one, I think that may just be what August sounds like to me.

Hallelujah Anyway – Luke Sital-Singh on Hallelujah Anyway – Single

Call Your Mom – Noah Kahan on Stick Season (We’ll All Be Here Forever)

Machine Learning – J. Maya on Machine Learning – Single

Beneath Oak Trees – Dylan Gossett on No Better Time – EP

Can I Ask – Yoste on A Place To Exist

Under The Surface – Sultan + Shepard & Nathan Nicholson on Endless, Dawn

Boys Of Faith (feat. Bon Iver) – Zach Bryan on Boys Of Faith – EP

Kalahari Down – Orville Peck on Bronco

Let Me Drown – Orville Peck on Bronco

Daytona Sand – Orville Peck on Bronco

Want You (living room floor version) – Yoste on Want You (living room floor version) – Single

Midnight Magic – Charles Fauna on L I M B O

One More Light – LINKIN PARK on One More Light

Carson – Harry Strange on Carson – Single

The Hurtin’ Kind – Orville Peck & Midland on Stampede

Down Bad – Taylor Swift on THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY

Bones Shake – Hazlett on Bones Shake – Single

Believe Again – Luke Sital-Singh on Believe Again – Single

The Age of Believing – Aron Wright on The Age of Believing – Single

Miénteme – Orville Peck & Bu Cuaron on Stampede

I Don’t Want To Lie (living room floor version) – Yoste on I Don’t Want To Lie (living room floor version) – Single

How Far Will We Take It? – Orville Peck & Noah Cyrus on Stampede

Stay High – One Room on Lagoona

Stay Out of Trouble – OPLURE on Stay Out of Trouble – Single

I AM BLACK – BERWYN on I AM BLACK – Single

Little Bit of Magic – Thorin Loeks on Little Bit of Magic – Single

Shadow II – Charles Fauna on L I M B O

Little Homies – Vince Staples on Dark Times

Midnight Ride – Orville Peck, Kylie Minogue & Diplo on Midnight Ride – Single

Black&Blue – Vince Staples on Dark Times

Louder – Kygo, Julia Michaels & Chance Peña on Louder – Single

Far As I Can Go – Ian Harrison on Far As I Can Go – Single

Can’t Just Be Me – Vincent Mason on Can’t Just Be Me – EP

In Your Eyes – Sung on In Your Eyes – Single

feelslikeimfallinginlove – Coldplay on Moon Music

Macbeth – Max McNown on Macbeth – Single

Starforce – Saffari on Starforce – Single

Coming Home – ORACLE & Holochrome on Coming Home – EP

Mother – Allman Brown on Second Son, Pt. 2 – EP

Neptune – Beauvois on Dimensions – EP

Kaya – Yoste on Kaya – Single

Asymmetry – Axel Flóvent on Away From This Dream

Zzz – EDEN on Zzz – Single

I’m Your Man – Charles Fauna on L I M B O

Better Without You – Dixon Dallas on Happy Anniversary

Shallow Water – Elderbrook on Shallow Water – Single

Spin My Head – Massane & LeyeT on Visage 7 (Spin My Head) – Single

One Day – HAEVN on One Day – Single

Pink Pony Club – Chappell Roan on Pink Pony Club – Single

I Love You Always Forever – Donna Lewis on Now In a Minute

RA TA TA – Mahmood on RA TA TA – Single

As Above, So Below – Hayden Calnin on As Above, So Below – Single

JOYRIDE – Kesha on JOYRIDE – Single

places to be – Fred again.., Anderson .Paak & CHIKA on places to be – Single

Rhinestone Cowboy – Orville Peck, TJ Osborne, Waylon Payne & Fancy Hagood on Stampede¹

Ever You’re Gone – Orville Peck & Teddy Swims on Stampede

Leaving Home – Ian Harrison on Ways To Get On Out – EP

My Kink Is Karma – Chappell Roan on The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess²

Love Me Back – Max McNown on Love Me Back – Single

High (Slowed + Reverb) – ORYL on High – Single

Stockholm (Hidden Tapes Remix) – Penny & Sparrow on Horse Color Two

Swallows – Bailey & Lonely in the Rain on Swallows – Single

Tamly Maak – Amr Diab on Tamally Maak

Unfair Love (feat. Shaun Holton) – Max Cruise on Unfair Love (feat. Shaun Holton) – Single

Composure – Charles Fauna on L I M B O

Good God, Hot Damn – Hayden Blount on Good God, Hot Damn – Single³

Feel It All – Chance Peña on Feel It All – Single

Leave With My Love – ayokay on Leave With My Love – Single

Until The End – Yoste on Until The End – Single

ESE VATO – DOMELIPA & Ozuna on ESE VATO – Single

Circles – Sines of Summer on Circles – Single

Time Well Wasted – The Fray on The Fray Is Back – EP⁴

ten – Fred again.., Jozzy & Jim Legxacy on ten days

All-American Boy – Steve Grand on All American Boy

Sleeping All Alone – Dixon Dallas on Happy Anniversary

Dior – Kirky on Dior – Single

why did you invite me to your wedding – Kevin Atwater on why did you invite me to your wedding – Single

Faded Evergreen – Ed Prosek, Portair & Driftwood Choir on Faded Evergreen – Single

Close Your Eyes – Matias Roden on Close Your Eyes – Single

Places – Elderbrook & Shimza on Another Touch

Noor Al Ain – Amr Diab on Noor Al Ain⁵

Dusk – ford. on (The) Evening

Hurt – Sleeping At Last on Hurt – Single

Banadek Taala – Amr Diab on Banadek Taala

5ever – EDEN on 5ever – Single

Sad Girls (feat. Rema) – Clean Bandit & French The Kid on Sad Girls (feat. Rema) – Single

Hesitate – Golden Vessel & Emerson Leif on Hesitate – Single

Paper Money (feat. Elliott Skinner) – Clothing on From Memory

Majuy – Hayden Calnin on All Kinds of Light

American Nights – Zach Bryan on The Great American Bar Scene

Babe, I’m All Yours – Garrett Kato on Babe, I’m All Yours – Single

28 – Zach Bryan on The Great American Bar Scene⁶

Addicted – Does it matter & Francis Skyes on Second Hand Love

Ketamine (feat. Tobe Nwigwe) – Penny & Sparrow on Ketamine (feat. Tobe Nwigwe) – Single

Will You? – The Irrepressibles on Be Wild – Single

When the Sun Goes Down – Axel Flóvent on Away From This Dream

Bass Boat – Zach Bryan on The Great American Bar Scene

Moon River – Aquilo on A Quiet Invitation To A Hard Conversation

Where Are We Now? – Orville Peck & Mickey Guyton on Stampede

Want You To Want It – Aquilo on A Quiet Invitation To A Hard Conversation

Is What It Is – Chance Peña on Is What It Is – Single

Garden – Charles Fauna on L I M B O

I Love You’s – Hailee Steinfeld on I Love You’s – Single

Magnétique – LukHash on Magnétique – Single

WE PRAY – Coldplay, Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna & TINI on Moon Music

Don’t Look Down – The Fray on The Fray Is Back – EP

Into Dust – Mazzy Star on So Tonight That I Might See

Edge of Saturday Night – The Blessed Madonna & Kylie Minogue on Godspeed

Razones – Ozuna, Anuel AA, DJ Luian & Mambo Kingz on Razones – Single

i think you can save me – Dimside on i think you can save me – Single⁷

Capilano – OCULA on Lost Horizon – EP

Enhorabuena – Manuel Turizo on Enhorabuena – Single

Charlie Brown – Rolipso on Charlie Brown – Single⁸

Dance (‘Til You Love Someone Else) – Sam Smith on Love Goes

Doja – Central Cee on Doja – Single

1. Oh, this hits ↩
2. The songwriting on this is just perfect, truly. ↩
3. Very fun to sing along to. ↩
4. Honestly, this EP is perfectly titled. ↩
5. Been doing a bit of music recommendation swapping with some coworkers, so far I’m delighted by how well it’s working at getting me to listen to new stuff. ↩
6. Really been enjoying this album by Zach Bryan! ↩
7. Very Fred again.. feel to it, on the more ‘chill’ end of that spectrum. ↩
8. return of the yodelstep ↩

Posting a bit late today—I’ve just got back from Vancouver, BC, and didn’t bring my laptop with me while I was up there. Whoops.

Hallelujah Anyway – Luke Sital-Singh on Hallelujah Anyway – Single

Call Your Mom – Noah Kahan on Stick Season (We’ll All Be Here Forever)

Machine Learning – J. Maya on Machine Learning – Single

Beneath Oak Trees – Dylan Gossett on No Better Time – EP

Can I Ask – Yoste on A Place To Exist

Under The Surface – Sultan + Shepard & Nathan Nicholson on Endless, Dawn

Boys Of Faith (feat. Bon Iver) – Zach Bryan on Boys Of Faith – EP

Don’t Take the Money – Harry Strange & Mahogany on Don’t Take the Money – Single

Kalahari Down – Orville Peck on Bronco

Let Me Drown – Orville Peck on Bronco

Daytona Sand – Orville Peck on Bronco

CASTLE OF GLASS – LINKIN PARK on LIVING THINGS

Be Together – Enrique Iglesias on FINAL (Vol.2)

The Archer – Taylor Swift on Lover

Want You (living room floor version) – Yoste on Want You (living room floor version) – Single

DAUGHTER – Beyoncé on COWBOY CARTER

Midnight Magic – Charles Fauna on L I M B O

One More Light – LINKIN PARK on One More Light

Carson – Harry Strange on Carson – Single

Take Me Back – Allman Brown on Take Me Back – Single

Lake Tota – Hayden Calnin on Lake Tota – Single

Pig feet (feat. Childish Major) – ScHoolboy Q on BLUE LIPS

The Hurtin’ Kind – Orville Peck & Midland on Stampede: Vol. 1

Down Bad – Taylor Swift on THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY

Bones Shake – Hazlett on Bones Shake – Single

I Wanna Die in La (feat. girlhouse) – Jon Bryant on I Wanna Die in La (feat. girlhouse) – Single

iwaly – Shallou on iwaly – Single

Believe Again – Luke Sital-Singh on Believe Again – Single

The Age of Believing – Aron Wright on The Age of Believing – Single

Data – Aweezy on Data – Single

The River – Petey on The River – Single

Not Like Us – Kendrick Lamar on Not Like Us – Single

Miénteme – Orville Peck & Bu Cuaron on Stampede: Vol. 1

Conquer The Heart – Orville Peck & Nathaniel Rateliff on Stampede: Vol. 1

I Don’t Want To Lie (living room floor version) – Yoste on I Don’t Want To Lie (living room floor version) – Single

THICKRICK – Dominic Fike on 14 minutes

CHIHIRO – Billie Eilish on HIT ME HARD AND SOFT

Control – Emmit Fenn on The Last Dance – Single

How Far Will We Take It? – Orville Peck & Noah Cyrus on Stampede: Vol. 1

Stay High – One Room on Lagoona

Stay Out of Trouble – OPLURE on Stay Out of Trouble – Single

I AM BLACK – BERWYN on I AM BLACK – Single

Little Bit of Magic – Thorin Loeks on Little Bit of Magic – Single

Shadow II – Charles Fauna on L I M B O

Keep Moving – Aquilo on Painkiller – Single

Shadow I – Charles Fauna on L I M B O

Little Homies – Vince Staples on Dark Times

Midnight Ride – Orville Peck, Kylie Minogue & Diplo on Midnight Ride – Single

Heavy (feat. Kiiara) – Linkin Park on One More Light

Black&Blue – Vince Staples on Dark Times

Louder – Kygo, Julia Michaels & Chance Peña on Louder – Single

euphoria – Kendrick Lamar on euphoria – Single

Far As I Can Go – Ian Harrison on Far As I Can Go – Single

Can’t Just Be Me – Vincent Mason on Can’t Just Be Me – EP

In Your Eyes – Sung on In Your Eyes – Single

feelslikeimfallinginlove – Coldplay on Moon Music

Cologne – Emmit Fenn on Cologne – Single

Bad Advice – The Chainsmokers & ELIO on No Hard Feelings – EP

Dark – Does it matter & Francis Skyes on Dark – Single

Hurt People (feat. Madison Love) – Two Feet on A 20 Something F**k

DLR Freestyle – Zino Vinci on TFL Blues – EP

Wash It Away – Axel Flóvent on Away From This Dream

Magic Johnson – Aweezy on #Weezyforpresident – EP

Action Film (feat. Barletino) – Daara on Restricted Area

Touch the Surface – JOEL on Touch the Surface – Single

Macbeth – Max McNown on Macbeth – Single

Starforce – Saffari on Starforce – Single

Coming Home – ORACLE & Holochrome on Coming Home – EP

Jupiter – Beauvois on Dimensions – EP

Mother – Allman Brown on Second Son, Pt. 2 – EP

Neptune – Beauvois on Dimensions – EP

Kaya – Yoste on Kaya – Single¹

Oblivion (Live at Hangar 30) – SYML on LIVE AT HANGAR 30

A.C. – Two Feet on A.C. – Single

Gather Together – EMBRZ on Gather Together

THE GREATEST – Billie Eilish on HIT ME HARD AND SOFT

Asymmetry – Axel Flóvent on Away From This Dream

Where We’d Be (feat. Tailor) – OCULA on Where We’d Be (feat. Tailor)

Zero – Octavian on Zero – Single²

Renegades – X Ambassadors on VHS

Zzz – EDEN on Zzz – Single

What Was I Made For? (From The Motion Picture “Barbie”) – Billie Eilish on What Was I Made For? (From The Motion Picture “Barbie”) – Single

Carousel – cln on Carousel – Single

I’m Your Man – Charles Fauna on L I M B O

Better Without You – Dixon Dallas on Happy Anniversary

Lose Your Love – Does it matter & Francis Skyes on Lose Your Love – Single

Apple – Charli xcx on BRAT

Shallow Water – Elderbrook on Shallow Water – Single

Spin My Head – Massane & LeyeT on Visage 7 (Spin My Head) – Single

One Day – HAEVN on One Day – Single

sex – EDEN on i think you think too much of me

Pink Pony Club – Chappell Roan on Pink Pony Club – Single³

I Love You Always Forever – Donna Lewis on Now In a Minute

RA TA TA – Mahmood on RA TA TA – Single

As Above, So Below – Hayden Calnin on As Above, So Below – Single

JOYRIDE – Kesha on JOYRIDE – Single⁴

places to be – Fred again.., Anderson .Paak & CHIKA on places to be – Single

Wake Up – Hilary Duff on Most Wanted

Jessie’s Girl – Rick Springfield on The Best of Rick Springfield

1. Has Yoste released anything that didn’t immediately go into my playlist? I should check, I suppose I do have all the data for that… ↩
2. This song inspired a feature request for the Music app: “use ML to detect sirens in tracks, and auto-skip those tracks when I’m in the Driving focus.” ↩
3. Happy Pride, everyone! This song is: a bop. ↩
4. “Are you a man? ‘Cause I’m a bitch.” is a hell of an opening line, and it just goes from there. Truly excellent. ↩

If it’s Pride where you are, happy Pride! There’s a lot of Orville Peck in here, which I’ll pretend was a deliberate choice to celebrate.

gatsby – Daniel Leggs on gatsby – Single

Hallelujah Anyway – Luke Sital-Singh on Hallelujah Anyway – Single

Call Your Mom – Noah Kahan on Stick Season (We’ll All Be Here Forever)

Machine Learning – J. Maya on Machine Learning – Single

Beneath Oak Trees – Dylan Gossett on No Better Time – EP

Can I Ask – Yoste on A Place To Exist

People Watching – Charles Fauna on People Watching – Single

Under The Surface – Sultan + Shepard & Nathan Nicholson on Endless, Dawn

Boys Of Faith (feat. Bon Iver) – Zach Bryan on Boys Of Faith – EP

Imitadora – Romeo Santos on Golden

The Night We Met – Amber Run on The Power Of Love – Single

Don’t Take the Money – Harry Strange & Mahogany on Don’t Take the Money – Single

Carrusel – Ozuna on Carrusel – Single

Kalahari Down – Orville Peck on Bronco

Highlights – Sasha Alex Sloan on Highlights – Single

Let Me Drown – Orville Peck on Bronco

Daytona Sand – Orville Peck on Bronco

Bronco – Orville Peck on Bronco

Lafayette – Orville Peck on Bronco

manly – Andy HD on how i felt in march of ’21 – Single

Oliver – FER4Z on Oliver – Single

Dragon – flora cash on Dragon – Single

CASTLE OF GLASS – LINKIN PARK on LIVING THINGS

JOLENE – Beyoncé on COWBOY CARTER

Be Together – Enrique Iglesias on FINAL (Vol.2)

The Archer – Taylor Swift on Lover

II MOST WANTED – Beyoncé & Miley Cyrus on COWBOY CARTER

Want You (living room floor version) – Yoste on Want You (living room floor version) – Single

They Can’t Hang – wes mills on They Can’t Hang – Single

DAUGHTER – Beyoncé on COWBOY CARTER

La Botella – Enrique Iglesias & El Alfa on FINAL (Vol.2)

Midnight Magic – Charles Fauna on L I M B O

One More Light – LINKIN PARK on One More Light

Carson – Harry Strange on Carson – Single

Go Home (Demo) – alberto brandt on Go Home (Demo) – Single

Don’t Matter to Me – Vancouver Sleep Clinic & GXNXVS on Don’t Matter to Me – Single

Take Me Back – Allman Brown on Take Me Back – Single

Lake Tota – Hayden Calnin on Lake Tota – Single

Vida – Miliano on Vida – Single

Stressed Days – Zino Vinci on Stressed Days – Single

Swans – Kai Bosch on Love, Throw Me A Bone – EP

Pig feet (feat. Childish Major) – ScHoolboy Q on BLUE LIPS

The Hurtin’ Kind – Orville Peck & Midland on Stampede: Vol. 1

Down Bad – Taylor Swift on THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY

Bones Shake – Hazlett on Bones Shake – Single

I Wanna Die in La (feat. girlhouse) – Jon Bryant on I Wanna Die in La (feat. girlhouse) – Single

iwaly – Shallou on iwaly – Single

Seasons – Thirty Seconds to Mars on Seasons (Acoustic) – Single

Twelveighteen – kiskadee on Twelveighteen / Heda – EP

Believe Again – Luke Sital-Singh on Believe Again – Single

The Age of Believing – Aron Wright on The Age of Believing – Single

Data – Aweezy on Data – Single

The River – Petey on The River – Single

Photoshoot Tonight – Isaac Dunbar on Beep Beep Repeat – EP

Not Like Us – Kendrick Lamar on Not Like Us – Single

Miénteme – Orville Peck & Bu Cuaron on Stampede: Vol. 1

Yet – Babsy. on Yet – Single

Conquer The Heart – Orville Peck & Nathaniel Rateliff on Stampede: Vol. 1

I Don’t Want To Lie (living room floor version) – Yoste on I Don’t Want To Lie (living room floor version) – Single

Oblivion – SYML on Oblivion – Single

THICKRICK – Dominic Fike on 14 minutes

CHIHIRO – Billie Eilish on HIT ME HARD AND SOFT

Control – Emmit Fenn on The Last Dance – Single

How Far Will We Take It? – Orville Peck & Noah Cyrus on Stampede: Vol. 1¹

Stay High – One Room on Lagoona

Chemical Sunset – Orville Peck & Allison Russell on Stampede: Vol. 1

hi grace – Dominic Fike on 14 minutes

Stay Out of Trouble – OPLURE on Stay Out of Trouble – Single

I AM BLACK – BERWYN on I AM BLACK – Single

Painkiller – Aquilo on Painkiller – Single

Little Bit of Magic – Thorin Loeks on Little Bit of Magic – Single²

We’re Over – ZEE on We’re Over – Single

Shadow II – Charles Fauna on L I M B O³

Keep Moving – Aquilo on Painkiller – Single

Follow The Feeling – Lonely in the Rain & PEARL on Follow The Feeling – Single

Shadow I – Charles Fauna on L I M B O

Little Homies – Vince Staples on Dark Times

Like No One Could – flora cash on Like No One Could – EP

Bloom – Edwin Raphael, wordsbyjuni & Kashmir Winter on Will You Think of Me Later? (Recurring Dream)

4U – Mac Ofro on 4U – Single

Midnight Ride – Orville Peck, Kylie Minogue & Diplo on Midnight Ride – Single

Heavy (feat. Kiiara) – Linkin Park on One More Light

BROADCAST: TIME AWAY – BIG SPECIAL on POSTINDUSTRIAL HOMETOWN BLUES

Same Old Song (S.O.S. Part 1) – Two Feet on A 20 Something F**k

Black&Blue – Vince Staples on Dark Times

Bando Dreams – Yung Fume on Bando Dreams – Single

Louder – Kygo, Julia Michaels & Chance Peña on Louder – Single

euphoria – Kendrick Lamar on euphoria – Single⁴

Far As I Can Go – Ian Harrison on Far As I Can Go – Single

Can’t Just Be Me – Vincent Mason on Can’t Just Be Me – EP

In Your Eyes – Sung on In Your Eyes – Single⁵

Feels – Moezi on Feels – Single

Que Sera – Yartti & Juma Mufasa on Que Sera – Single

Heaven in the Right Light – Old Sea Brigade on Heaven in the Right Light – Single

Pink Skies – Zach Bryan on Pink Skies – Single

feelslikeimfallinginlove – Coldplay on Moon Music⁶

Cologne – Emmit Fenn on Cologne – Single

In Your Eyes – The Weeknd on After Hours (Deluxe)

1. I really enjoyed the music video of this one, too. ↩
2. To really emphasize what the experience of these playlists is like, play this immediately after Pig Feet. ↩
3. Delighted by how well this captures the feeling of what I liked about Charles Fauna originally without being derivative of his earlier work. ↩
4. I know only a little bit about the Kendrick/Drake beef, but it sure does make for some good music. From one side. ↩
5. This is why In Your Eyes by The Weeknd showed up later – the scansion works. ↩
6. New Coldplay? In 2024??? It’s more likely than you think. ↩

Honestly surprised this playlist is as long as it is; this month has felt extremely busy.

gatsby – Daniel Leggs on gatsby – Single

If You Want Somebody – Elderbrook on Little Love

I Don’t Want To Lie – Yoste & Vandelux on I Don’t Want To Lie – Single

Hallelujah Anyway – Luke Sital-Singh on Hallelujah Anyway – Single

Call Your Mom – Noah Kahan on Stick Season (We’ll All Be Here Forever)

Crazy in the Night (Barking at Airplanes) – Kim Carnes on Best of Kim Carnes

Machine Learning – J. Maya on Machine Learning – Single

Beneath Oak Trees – Dylan Gossett on No Better Time – EP

Can I Ask – Yoste on A Place To Exist

People Watching – Charles Fauna on People Watching – Single

Under The Surface – Sultan + Shepard & Nathan Nicholson on Endless, Dawn

Boys Of Faith (feat. Bon Iver) – Zach Bryan on Boys Of Faith – EP

Risk Al – Mako & Baro on Risk al – Single

Imitadora – Romeo Santos on Golden

TUTA GOLD – Mahmood on TUTA GOLD – Single

The Night We Met – Amber Run on The Power Of Love – Single

Don’t Take the Money – Harry Strange & Mahogany on Don’t Take the Money – Single

Carrusel – Ozuna on Carrusel – Single

Kalahari Down – Orville Peck on Bronco

TEXAS HOLD ‘EM – Beyoncé on TEXAS HOLD ‘EM – Single

Highlights – Sasha Alex Sloan on Highlights – Single

Bite the Hand – Harry Strange on Bite the Hand / Kind of Love – Single

Let Me Drown – Orville Peck on Bronco

Daytona Sand – Orville Peck on Bronco

Bronco – Orville Peck on Bronco

Lafayette – Orville Peck on Bronco

Blush – Orville Peck on Bronco

Tulips – Kai Bosch on Love, Throw Me A Bone – EP

Smalltown Boy – Orville Peck on Smalltown Boy – Single

manly – Andy HD on how i felt in march of ’21 – Single

Oliver – FER4Z on Oliver – Single

Dragon – flora cash on Dragon – Single

4 The Music – MIN on 4 The Music – Single

The Winner Takes It All – Meryl Streep on Mamma Mia! (The Movie Soundtrack feat. the Songs of ABBA)

Heat Above – Greta Van Fleet on The Battle at Garden’s Gate

CASTLE OF GLASS – LINKIN PARK on LIVING THINGS

JOLENE – Beyoncé on COWBOY CARTER

Be Together – Enrique Iglesias on FINAL (Vol.2)

The Archer – Taylor Swift on Lover

not ok – Andy HD on not ok – Single

not ok – Andy HD on not ok – Single

no body, no crime (feat. HAIM) – Taylor Swift on evermore

II MOST WANTED – Beyoncé & Miley Cyrus on COWBOY CARTER

Want You (living room floor version) – Yoste on Want You (living room floor version) – Single

They Can’t Hang – wes mills on They Can’t Hang – Single

DAUGHTER – Beyoncé on COWBOY CARTER

La Botella – Enrique Iglesias & El Alfa on FINAL (Vol.2)

Prrrum – Cosculluela on El Príncipe [Ghost Edition]

Como Yo – Enrique Iglesias on FINAL (Vol.2)

Midnight Magic – Charles Fauna on L I M B O

Kind of Love – Harry Strange on Bite the Hand / Kind of Love – Single

One More Light – LINKIN PARK on One More Light

Carson – Harry Strange on Carson – Single

Go Home (Demo) – alberto brandt on Go Home (Demo) – Single

All I Wanna Say – Lontalius on I’ll Forget 17

To Be Loved – Moko on Until Feb

Chicken Tenders – Dominic Fike on What Could Possibly Go Wrong

Revenge – Saffari on Revenge – Single

Don’t Matter to Me – Vancouver Sleep Clinic & GXNXVS on Don’t Matter to Me – Single

Take Me Back – Allman Brown on Take Me Back – Single

Hope… – alberto brandt on Hope… – Single

Makes Me Violent – Bob Vylan on Humble As the Sun

Lake Tota – Hayden Calnin on Lake Tota – Single

Saint Michael Myers – Trippie Redd & BANKS on Saint Michael

Vida – Miliano on Vida – Single

Stressed Days – Zino Vinci on Stressed Days – Single

Un Autre Monde – Tom Kha on Un Autre Monde – Single

Swans – Kai Bosch on Love, Throw Me A Bone – EP

TRAP PHONE – BERWYN on TRAP PHONE – Single

Pig feet (feat. Childish Major) – ScHoolboy Q on BLUE LIPS

The Hurtin’ Kind – Orville Peck & Midland on Stampede: Vol. 1

Follow The Sun – Lost In Pacific & Noah Kulaga on Follow The Sun – Single

Friday – The Chainsmokers & Fridayy on No Hard Feelings – EP

Lie To Me – Edwin Raphael on Will You Think of Me Later? (Recurring Dream)

Inside Out – Winona Oak & Boy In Space on Inside Out – Single

Down Bad – Taylor Swift on THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY

Bones Shake – Hazlett on Bones Shake – Single¹

Count on Me – Emmit Fenn on Count on Me – Single

Sober – Edwin Raphael on Will You Think of Me Later? (Recurring Dream)

Hideaway (feat. Ruba) – Charles Fauna on L I M B O

I Wanna Die in La (feat. girlhouse) – Jon Bryant on I Wanna Die in La (feat. girlhouse) – Single

iwaly – Shallou on iwaly – Single²

Promise – HAEVN on Promise – Single

NEIGHBOURS – BERWYN on NEIGHBOURS – Single

Seasons – Thirty Seconds to Mars on Seasons (Acoustic) – Single

Run Right Back – ORACLE & Holochrome on Run Right Back – Single

Twelveighteen – kiskadee on Twelveighteen / Heda – EP

Believe Again – Luke Sital-Singh on Believe Again – Single

The Age of Believing – Aron Wright on The Age of Believing – Single³

Data – Aweezy on Data – Single

The River – Petey on The River – Single

Photoshoot Tonight – Isaac Dunbar on Beep Beep Repeat – EP

Heaven – The National on Heaven – Single

Not Like Us – Kendrick Lamar on Not Like Us – Single⁴

Miénteme – Orville Peck & Bu Cuaron on Stampede: Vol. 1

Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting) – Orville Peck & Elton John on Stampede: Vol. 1

As Easy As Possible – Oduu on Connect – EP

Yet – Babsy. on Yet – Single

Heartburn – Panama & Vandelux on Heartburn – Single

Conquer The Heart – Orville Peck & Nathaniel Rateliff on Stampede: Vol. 1

I Don’t Want To Lie (living room floor version) – Yoste on I Don’t Want To Lie (living room floor version) – Single

Oblivion – SYML on Oblivion – Single

THICKRICK – Dominic Fike on 14 minutes

CHIHIRO – Billie Eilish on HIT ME HARD AND SOFT⁵

Captagon Limit Extended 909 Sr – 47 Tw Mix – Flesh Simulator on Captagon Limit Extended – Single

Control – Emmit Fenn on The Last Dance – Single

How Far Will We Take It? – Orville Peck & Noah Cyrus on Stampede: Vol. 1⁶

Stay High – One Room on Lagoona

Chemical Sunset – Orville Peck & Allison Russell on Stampede: Vol. 1

hi grace – Dominic Fike on 14 minutes

Stay Out of Trouble – OPLURE on Stay Out of Trouble – Single

Sinking Underground – Lontalius on Sinking Underground – Single

1. This is one that feels like it’s gonna be in my list for months on end, just based on how I’m slowly picking up bits of it that I can sing along to. ↩
2. I can’t quite figure out what this one reminds me of, feels like it’s on the tip of my tongue… ↩
3. The same guy who gave me “like the softest hammer” (How You’ll Be Remembered) comes in with “love is like a tiger on a landmine — you’re scared but want to save it at the same time.” Excellent. ↩
4. I’m told this is full of sick burns, or whatever. I don’t actually keep up with the music industry news enough to follow it, I just heard it enough from people who do that it wound up in here. ↩
5. The driving synth line in here is really excellent. ↩
6. The music video for this is also excellent. ↩