My wife has been listening to a lot of Cleo Sol, Olivia Dean and Thee Sacred Souls lately and asked me to make a playlist built around artists like that. The result is a super lovey-dovey, romantic, almost a little saccharine list of songs, including a lot of longtime favorites of my wife from artists like Beyoncé, Lianne La Havas, Corinne Bailey Rae, Jamila Woods and Holy Hive. Four out of the 25 tracks have the word “love” in the title, but I’m sure nearly every song’s lyrics contains the word. Get romantic about it!

You can listen to the playlist via Tidal or Spotify.

1. D’Angelo & The Vanguard – “Really Love”
2. Corinne Bailey Rae – “Put Your Records On”
3. Thee Sacred Souls – “Easier Said Than Done”
4. Leon Bridges – “Coming Home”
5. Natalie Bergman – “Lonely Road”
6. Holy Hive – “Oh I Miss Her So (feat. Mary Lattimore)”
7. The Altons – “Love You Like That”
8. Olivia Dean – “So Easy (To Fall In Love)”
9. Badbadnotgood – “Found A Light (Beale Street) (feat. V.C.R)”
10. Lianne La Havas – “What You Don’t Do”
11. Beyoncé – “Love On Top”
12. Sade – “Paradise”
13. Jamila Woods – “Practice”
14. Snoh Aalegra – “Whoa”
15. Hiatus Kaiyote – “Red Room”
16. Erykah Badu – “On & On”
17. Solange – “Cranes In The Sky”
18. Frank Ocean – “Lost”
19. Nick Hakim – “Vertigo”
20. Dijon – “The Dress”
21. Little Dragon – “Where You Belong”
22. Ezra Collective – “God Gave Me Feet For Dancing (feat. Yazmin Lacey)”
23. Kokoroko – “Time and Time (feat. Demae)”
24. Cleo Sol – “Life Will Be”
25. Stevie Wonder – “You Are The Sunshine of My Life”