Here are 69 songs across 172 genres that I’ve been listening to lately. This playlist is nearly six hours long, so I hope the genre groupings are helpful in surfacing music you might like. Like MYML #1, this one has no real theme—it’s just songs I like.
To listen to this playlist on Spotify, click here. Note that song metadata — the genres, duration, release date, etc. — is provided by the Spotify API. I don’t input this information myself, so it might be wrong!
Chamber psych
“Vad Hände Med Dem?” by The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Genres
alternative rock, bay area indie, …
“Anenome” by The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Album
Tepid Peppermint Wonderland - A Retrospective
Genres
alternative rock, bay area indie, …
“Ascension” by The Comet Is Coming
Genres
british jazz, chamber psych, …
Art pop
“I'll Be Around” by Yo La Tengo
Genres
alternative rock, anti-folk, art pop, …
“Shameika” by Fiona Apple
Album
Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Genres
art pop, chamber pop, indie pop, lilith, …
“Strange” by Galaxie 500
Genres
alternative rock, anti-folk, art pop, …
“TEEVEE” by Hiroshi Yoshimura
Genres
ambient, art pop, fourth world, …
“CREEK” by Hiroshi Yoshimura
Genres
ambient, art pop, fourth world, …
“The Barrel” by Aldous Harding
Genres
ambient folk, art pop, chamber pop, …
“It'll All Work Out” by Blake Mills
Genres
art pop, chamber pop, freak folk, indie …
“symbol” by Adrianne Lenker
Genres
art pop, chamber pop, freak folk, indie …
“Book on How to Change” by Hand Habits
Album
Wildly Idle (Humble Before the Void)
Genres
art pop, bedroom pop, freak folk, indie …
“Not The News” by Thom Yorke
Genres
art pop, electronica, glitch pop, indie …
“Diagonals” by Stereolab
Genres
alternative rock, art pop, art rock, …
Funk
“Tell Me a Bedtime Story” by Herbie Hancock
Genres
bebop, contemporary post-bop, cool jazz, …
“Reach Out I'll Be There” by Four Tops
Genres
adult standards, brill building pop, …
“You've Got Nothing to Lose” by Michael Kiwanuka
Album
You've Got Nothing To Lose
Genres
british soul, funk, neo soul, soul
Experimental pop
“Ran Ran Run” by Pavo Pavo
Album
Young Narrator in the Breakers
“In the lassa” by Juana Molina
Genres
argentine indie, electronica argentina, …
Electronica
“Swimmers” by Zero 7, Jem Cooke
Genres
downtempo, electronica, nu jazz, trip …
“Flower” by Moby
Album
Play & Play: B Sides
Genres
downtempo, electronica
“Kelly Watch the Stars” by Air
Genres
ambient pop, downtempo, electronica, …
“Alone in Kyoto” by Air
Genres
ambient pop, downtempo, electronica, …
Genreless
“Voices Carry Through The Mist” by Charles Watson
Album
Now That I'm A River
Indie R&B
“Miles Song” by Cleo Sol
Genres
alternative r&b, indie r&b, indie soul, …
Freak folk
“Pink Moon” by Nick Drake
Genres
british folk, folk, folk rock, freak …
“The Conservation of Energy” by Vanishing Twin
Album
Choose Your Own Adventure
Genres
chamber psych, experimental pop, freak …
Indie rock
“Everything I Am Is Yours” by Villagers
Genres
chamber pop, indie folk, indie rock, …
“Bonfires on the Heath” by The Clientele
Album
Bonfires on the Heath
Genres
c86, chamber pop, chamber psych, dream …
“We Will Not Make It (Not Without You)” by Twin Peaks
Genres
chicago indie, indie garage rock, indie …
“Bloodless” by Andrew Bird
Genres
baroque pop, chamber pop, chicago indie, …
Afrofuturism
“La Femme Fetal” by Digable Planets
Album
Reachin' (A New Refutation Of Time And Space)
Genres
afrofuturism, alternative hip hop, east …
Houston indie
“I Can't Lose” by Sam Cohen
Album
The Future’s Still Ringing In My Ears
Fourth world
“薔薇と野獣 - New ver.” by Haruomi Hosono
Genres
classic j-rock, fourth world, japanese …
Deep free jazz
“Hati Hati” by Eero Koivistoinen Quartet
Genres
deep free jazz, finnish jazz
Small room
“Happiness” by Katie Dey
Genres
hyperpop, small room, transpop
Spiritual jazz
“Song of Injured Love” by Gábor Szabó
“Bwaata” by Compost
Genres
pornogrind, spiritual jazz
Indie garage rock
“The Past Tense” by infinite bisous
Contemporary classical
“Pulses” by Steve Reich, Erik Hall
Album
Music for 18 Musicians (Steve Reich) - Pulses + Section I
Genres
american contemporary classical, …
“Section I” by Steve Reich, Erik Hall
Album
Music for 18 Musicians (Steve Reich) - Pulses + Section I
Genres
american contemporary classical, …
“Slow Motion Blackbird” by Steve Reich, Chris Hughes
Genres
american contemporary classical, …
“Musica ricercata No. 7 in B-Flat Major” by György Ligeti, Khatia Buniatishvili
Genres
avant-garde, classical, compositional …
“Casa Vecchia” by Paul Dresher, Ensemble 9, Yuki Morimoto
Album
Dresher: Casa Vecchia - Mirrors - Other Fire - Underground
Genres
contemporary classical, minimalism, …
Folk
“Hammond Song” by The Roches
Jazz
“Myself When I Am Real” by Charles Mingus
Genres
avant-garde jazz, bebop, contemporary …
New wave pop
“I Feel Love - 12" Version” by Donna Summer
Album
Bad Girls (Deluxe Edition)
Genres
dance pop, disco, europop, hi-nrg, …
Deep latin alternative
“Te Quiero Pero Por Otro Lado…” by Savath & Savalas
Genres
deep latin alternative
Stomp and holler
“Line Of Fire” by Junip
Genres
stomp and holler, swedish indie rock
Japanese post-rock
“衝動の粒子” by fox capture plan
Genres
japanese jazz fusion, japanese math …
Polish jazz
“Dialogue” by Tomasz Stańko, Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen
Genres
ecm-style jazz, jazz trumpet, polish …
“Kattorna” by Tomasz Stanko Quartet
Genres
ecm-style jazz, jazz quartet, polish …
Art rock
“This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - 2005 Remaster” by Talking Heads
Album
Speaking in Tongues (Deluxe Version)
Genres
art punk, art rock, dance rock, funk …
“It's My Life - 1997 Remaster” by Talk Talk
Genres
art rock, dance rock, melancholia, new …
“Govinda Jai Jai” by Alice Coltrane
Album
Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana
Genres
afrofuturism, afropop, art rock, …
“The Caves Of Altamira” by Steely Dan
Genres
album rock, art rock, classic rock, …
“Perfect Way” by Scritti Politti, Green Gartside
Genres
art rock, dance rock, new romantic, new …
“Something Against You” by Pixies
Album
Surfer Rosa (Remastered)
Genres
alternative rock, art rock, boston rock, …
Modular synth
“Concert At Phil Niblock's Loft” by Suzanne Ciani
Album
Buchla Concerts 1975
Genres
modular synth, new age, new age piano
Neo-psychedelic
“Higher Now” by Drakkar Nowhere
Folktronica
“鉄鎖” by Mid-Air Thief
Genres
folktronica, korean indie rock
Industrial hip hop
“If I Only Had A Brain” by MC 900 Ft. Jesus
Album
One Step Ahead Of The Spider
“The City Sleeps” by MC 900 Ft. Jesus
New wave
“Are 'Friends' Electric?” by Tubeway Army
Album
Replicas (Remastered)
Genres
dance rock, early synthpop, new …
“No Peace for the Wicked” by Thompson Twins
Genres
dance rock, mellow gold, new romantic, …
Indie folk
“Love Songs For Robots” by Patrick Watson
Album
Love Songs For Robots
Genres
chamber pop, indie folk
J-rock
“グッド・ラック” by Shintaro Sakamoto
Album
あなたもロボットになれる c/w グッド・ラック
Funk rock
“Aunt Leslie” by Vulfpeck
Genres
ann arbor indie, funk rock, instrumental …
Japanese classical
“Piano Concerto, Op. 67, "Memo Flora": I. Flower: Andante tranquillo - Allegro” by Takashi Yoshimatsu, Kyoko Tabe, Manchester Camerata, Sachio Fujioka
Album
Yoshimatsu: Piano Concerto, "Memo Flora" / And Birds Are Still …, / While an Angel Falls Into A Doze
