I got a few people on Twitter and Instagram asking me if I listen to music while I write. The answe is yes and here’s my most recent playlist, to spread some love and positivity through music. Hope you enjoy it.
A big mix of pop, r&b, hip hop, soul:
Benjamin Clementine – I Tell a Fly
Death Grips – The Money Store
Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
Grimes – Art Angels
Janelle Monae – The ArchAndroid
Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
Ladytron – Gravity the Seduce
Tyler the Creator – Flower Boy
blues, psych, rock, heavy & punk:
Baroness – Purple
Clutch – Earth Rocker
Da Captain Trips – Adventures in the Upside Down
Earthless – For the Ages
Fantastic Negrito – Please Don’t Be Dead
Fucked Up – David Comes to Life
Grinderman – Grinderman 2
Kylesa – Spiral Shadow
Mastodon – The Hunter
Mastodon – Once More ‘Round the Sun
Thee Oh Sees – Carrion Crawler / The Dream
Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
Tool – Fear Inoculum
Torche – Harmonicraft
Tropical Fuck Storm – A Laughing Death in Meatspace
Something dark:
Anna von Hausswolff – Dead Magic Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss
Hante – Between Hope and Danger
The Haxan Cloak – Excavations
Kreng – L’autopsie phenomenale de dieu
Murcof & Philippe Petit – First Chapter
The Soft Moon – The Soft Moon
The Soft Moon – Deeper
Ulver – Messe I.X – VI.X
Something more ethnic/folk:
Dead Can Dance – Dionysus
Heilung – Lifa
Kurt Vile – Wakin on a Pretty Daze
Sangre de Muerdago – Sangre de Muerdago
Tenhi – Saivo
Something jazzy, to read or write (excellent for writing, if you ask me)
Allison Miller – Otis Was a Polar Bear
Ambrose Akinmusire – A Rift in Decorum
Ambrose Akinmusire – When the Heart Emerges Glistening
Caterina Palazzi – Sudoku Killer
Caterina Palazzi – Asperger
Christian Scott – Yesterday You Said Tomorrow
Christian Scott – Stretch Music
Take Five
David Gilmore – Energies of Change
Dayna Stephens – Peace
Jason Palmer – Places
JD Allen – Americana
JD Allen – Graffiti
Justin Brown – Nyeusi
Logan Richardson – Shift
Miguel Zenon – Tipico
Orrin Evans – The Evolution of Oneself
Terence Blanchard – Magnetic
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