Tag Archives: Playlist

Playlist: Your Peculiar Glow – Light Bends Around You

I’ve been on a tear the last three years of making fall-themed playlists and I wanted to keep the streak alive. Sure this isn’t an overwhelmingly FALL vibe, but rather it’s something cozy. It was inspired by the Tasha song … Continue reading

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Playlist: Sunset High Dive – Summer’s Eternal Horizon

The final installment of my summer 2025 synth pop / chillwave / balearic revival playlist series is the one I most clearly pair with a summery vision. The others could be a bit more modular, fitting in different scenarios. Not … Continue reading

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Playlist: Melting Portal Vision – Pliable Reality

The third installment of my summer’s synth pop playlists, Melting Portal Vision leans into squelchy, rubbery and especially 80s-indebted synth textures more than the others in the series. It aims to be a dizzying, blissful sink into warm waters. Near … Continue reading

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Playlist: Electric Eel Boogie – Glistening Groove

This is the second installment in my summer 2025 synth pop playlist series, where I mine every single morsel of musical nostalgia I’ve accumulated for the summers of ~2008 to 2015. Plundering a rich field of fools gold chillwave, 80s-inspired … Continue reading

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Playlist: Sun Glitters on Cool Water – Remembered Paradise

It’s been far too long since I’ve posted a new playlist on the blog (also just posted anything period), but I’m breaking that dry spell with four new chillwave / balearic revival / synth pop playlists all set to soundtrack … Continue reading

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Playlist: Old-Growth, New Sprouts – Finding Your Way

On somewhat of a tear with playlists, inspired by a roadtrip taken this past week up to Maine. Gotta have some new meat on the speakers for eight hours in the car. This time around I wanted to return to … Continue reading

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Playlist: Camcorder Diary – Artifacted Memories

Scattered sd cards, fragmented memories. Artifacted ephemeral portraits of a lost self. The lens zooms upon the visage. Soft, voyeuristic yearning beamed in from the future. It’s been a while since I’ve made a new playlist, and what better time … Continue reading

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Playlist: I Dreamt Of Reeds Again – Yearning for Horizon

A desire for slowness and a widening of scope. Sinking back into the earth, deep breaths. I made this playlist back in 2022 before my partner and I headed to Arizona for a vacation and the wedding of her childhood … Continue reading

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Playlist: Ennui Potpourri – Dead Mall’s Echoes

Sitting on a plowed snow pile in the middle of a dead mall’s parking lot, the sounds of rushing cars bleed over from the highway across the litter-choked, barren tree-lined median. You think you know all there is to know … Continue reading

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Playlist: Winter Jacket Love Letter – Fool’s Nostalgia

’95 sedan heat, carpet seats crumbs embedded, pilling flannel under dad’s old coat, arm cast signed xoxo, flattened field, glazed pewter skies, 3pm twilight, turnpike cowboy, fool’s nostalgia, snare shot to heaven, a letter you tucked away from another season. Continue reading

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