In honor of Greywaren’s release week (some of you already have it, and I’ve got my launch event in Miami* 24 hours from now, the day before its official release date), here’s a massive playlist sorted by chapter.
(please note: if you love any tunes, please support the bands!)
*Coral Gables
Prologue: “Sun Gun” – The Arthur Brothers
This machine can hear you cry ten thousand miles away/
A memory, a photograph, a vision from another place
1: “C.U.R.E.” – Boots
Ambulance/ who’s watching your family, kid?
Who’s collecting millions and millions and millions, kid?
2: “Dawn” – Jeff Grace
3: “Lonely” – Colony House
Is this a heart attack or did my troubles find a way/
To paint my heart this black?
4: “Stand Up” – KONGOS
Stand up/ take me to your leader
Sit down/ and tell me about your freedom
5: “Leslie’s Tune” - Kila
“The Internet” – Manchester Orchestra
Wake me up/ I am inside of it
You were in spite of it/ I was on fire for it
6: “Drinkee” – SOFI TUKKER
Com Deus me deito/ com Deus me levanto/
Comigo eu calo/ comigo eu canto
7: “fleabag (acoustic)” – YUNGBLUD
I’m just a fleabag/ nobody loves me
Send me to rehab/ somebody touch me
“Peachie” – tiLLie
Hi hello it’s your favorite enemy/
Here’s a little coffee with your reckoning
8: “Fly” – Nick Drake
Please give me a second grace/
Please give me a second face/
I’ve fallen far down
9: “Element” – Moses Mayfield
I’m screaming/
my lungs out/
‘cause I’m wishing/
You were here with me now
10: “Apricots” – Bicep
“People I Don’t Like” – UPSAHL
Blah blah blah I’m so bored/
Love your shoes, tell me more
11: “Without You I’m Nothing” – Greg Laswell
Instant correlation sucks and breeds a pack of lies/
I’ll take it by your side
12: “They All Are” – BANNERS
The sad ones, the move ons/
The stay strongs, the falling apart/
The breaking my heart
13: “Our House” – The Head and the Heart
Our house is a very very very fine house/
With two cats in the yard/
life used to be so hard
14: “War” – Brooke Candy
The government, lie/
The media, lie/
Your mama, lie/
Your grade school, lie
15: “Back of My Hand” – KAWALA
When I was a boy, before it began/
I knew this place like the back of my hand
“Trøllabundin” – Eivør
Trøllabundin eri eg/
Galdrama∂ur festi meg
16: “Hits Different” – Astrid S
When you don’t need nobody/
Mm-hm, it hits different
17: “Brightside” – Kiiara
You let your guard down/
For the first time/
Tastes bitter right now
18: “This is What I Said” – Cloud Control
She said, “Can you feel the tangible chill?”/
“Can you feel the tangible chill in the air?”
19: “SATOR” – Ludwig Göransson
“I Am the Antichrist to You” – Kishi Bashi
Who are you? Who am I to you?
I am the antichrist to you
20: “Goliath” – Woodkid
The chest and the head divided by white lasers/
A pattern of mad strobes, you’re going haywire/
In your eyes night cold, I see the end of us/
You’re playing your best role but the mask shatters
21: “Canzonetta Sull’Aria” – Rebecca Newman
Sull’aria
Che soave zeffiretto
Zeffiretto
Questa sera spirerà
22: “Dream State” – Son Lux
Will we survive in this, our new wilderness?
We have nothing on our feet
23: “The Witch of the Westmorelands” – Lau
She’s bound his wounds with the goldenrod/
Full fast in her arms he lay
24: “Broken Bones” – CHVRCHES
Catch them and kill them/
Your only hope is evil
25: “Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea” – MISSIO
The berth surrounding my body, crushing every bit of bone/
The salt, it seeps in through the pores of my open skin
26: “Weep” – Mother Mother
There is a place that hurts the most/
But will I go there?
I cannot climb, it’s far below/
I have to fall there
“COLORS (Thomaas Banks Remix)” – HEALTH & The Soft Moon
27: “Karmageddon” – Abbe May
I’m your secret/
You’re my worst friend
28: “High on a Hill” – Kate Rusby
All come together/
Are you in or are you out?
The eleventh day was hell/
But the heart grows stronger
29: “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These)” – Eurythmics
Some of them want to use you/
Some of them want to get used by you
30: “Die Young” – Max Young
Every night you’re terrified/
Of what you won’t become
31: “Manic” – CLOVES
Maybe I’m numb/
Maybe you don’t understand
32: “We Used To Laugh” – flora cash
You said I would never leave your side/
No one else is worth my while
33 & 34: “Revealed” – Tune-Yards
35: “Boadicea” – Enya
36: “Return to Maraquopa” – Damien Jurado
Out there is nowhere but inside is endless/
Taking up room til you run out of space
37: “Trip to Ireland” – John McSherry & Michael Goldrick
“Dublin Lady” – Andy M. Stewart
If it wasn’t for the Irish sea so narrow with no reef/
Dublin Lady wouldn’t have to sit and weep all in her grief
38: “Hummingbird” – Low Roar
Tentative captain/
Don’t keep your eyes on the ground
39: “The Child, Pt. 2” – Jed Kurzel
40: “Macbeth” – Jed Kurzel
41: “How Soon is Now (feat. Dresage)” – AG (Smiths cover)
I am the son and heir/
Of nothing in particular
42: “Silver Soul” – Zola Blood
You say that we don’t know/
When days like these won’t come no more
43: “Destroyer” – Of Monsters and Men
I want to be the king of my body and mind/
Gravity, let me go
44: “Goodbye John Smith” – Barns Courtney
Come on, feet, don’t fail me now/
‘Cause I’ll fall too hard if I hit the ground
45: “Something is Wrong” – Lisa Hannigan
46: “Les Contes d’Hoffman, Act 4 Barcarolle, ‘Belle Nuit ô nuit d’amour’” – Jacques Offenbach
Le temps fuit et sans retour/
Emporte nos tendresses
47: “The Birth of Worlds” – Giant Rooks
We fade/
We fade/
The birth of worlds
48: “Descending” – Jesper Kyd
49: “You Will Marry the Wrong Person” – Tom Rosenthal
You can’t free happiness/
Or the golden moments/
They will be gone
50: “Present” - Hembree
And now that we’re here/
Make it count, make it clear/
I am well, I am well, I am well
51: “Everything Beta” – Phoria
Leaving all the sunlight up/
Hope I let you in
52: “Chapstick” – COIN
I just wanna dance, baby
I just wanna cry lately
53: “Cascades (Dirt Road Version)” – Metric
Just keep going strong/
With whatever it is, yeah/
That’s compelling you on, yeah/
Don’t be afraid when I’m gone
Epilogue: “The Great Divide” – The Shins
Your hand in mine/
The great divide/
A stitch in time/
And then we recombine/
Well, dust-to-dust/
Has led us here to collide
What a delightful teaser; thank you Maggie! Is that a possible happy ending on the other side of dark and loss that I spy from this playlist? All the best on your big release day! Stay true ♡
Cooooooool