Long in the making, it’s not the fall playlist I anticipated, but the one I think we all need right now. The sun sets at 4:30pm, the sky rarely deviates from a hard slate grey, and the cold temperatures give us all the incentives we need to stay inside. In theory, we shouldn’t want anything that keeps us feeling sad. Au contraire – sometimes we need that extra layer of sadness to blanket upon our already building dirty-pile-of-laundry-on-the-bed type of malaise.

In this playlist I started off with a basic shoegaze formula, but then built upon that with some folk and slowcore. A few other tiny surprises, but for the most part this is for coming from the bed to work to the bed, to a weekend watching the sky stay the same color all day, and feeling too self conscious to leave your room. We’ve all been there! It’s 2019! Get with it! Full tracklisting and link to listen below.

LISTEN TO MAUVE MALAISE ON SPOTIFY HERE!

1. Sweet Trip – “To All the Dancers of the World, A Round Form of Fantasy”
2. My Bloody Valentine – “All I Need”
3. Fleeting Joys – “The Breakup”
4. Secret Shine – “Into The Ether”
5. Sarah Louise – “Rime”
6. Good Night & Good Morning – “Philadelphia”
7. Julia Lucille – “Plot of Ground”
8. Cross Record – “High Rise”
9. Purple Pilgrims – “Ruinous Splendour (feat. Roy Montgomery)”
10. Tamaryn – “Sandstone”
11. Slowdive – “Souvlaki Space Station”
12. Should – “Feels Like Morning”
13. Swirlies – “Pancake”
14. Astrobrite – “Hopefully”
15. LSD and the Search for God – “Starshine”
16. Fibril – “Declined”
17. Roy Montgomery – “Landfall (feat. Liz Harris)”
18. North Americans – “Grayling”
19. The Microphones – “The Moon”
20. Gia Margaret – “Smoke”
21. Matchess – “Ossify Them”
22. Benny Sings – “Dreamin’ (Sam Wilkes Remix)”
23. Julee Cruise – “Falling”
24. Yo La Tengo – “Saturday”
25. Weyes Blood – “Lost In Dreams”
26. Infinite Body – “Drive Dreams Away”
27. Grouper – “Being Her Shadow”
28. Slowdive – “Miranda”
29. Cocteau Twins – “Throughout the Dark Months of April and May”
30. Drowse – “Between Fence Posts”
31. Steve Gunn & the Black Twig Pickers – “Seasonal Hire”
32. Daniel Bachman – “And Now I Am Born To Die”
33. Mazzy Star – “Five String Serenade”
34. Nick Drake – “River Man”
35. Flying Saucer Attack – “November Mist”
36. Bowery Electric – “Empty Words”
37. Bedhead – “Crushing”
38. Codeine – “New Year’s”
39. Duster – “Inside Out”
40. Low – “Swingin'”
41. Mojave 3 – “Love Songs on the Radio”
42. Red House Painters – “Katy Song”
43. Cigarettes After Sex – “K.”
44. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions – “Treasure”
45. Colleen – “A flame my love, a frequency”