Playlist(ish): Summer 2020

Here is my summer 2020 playlist (always WIP, will update as we go along)

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I think I might be the only millennial who doesn't have a Spotify account, stubbornly clinging to my iPod classic (please tell me its charmingly antediluvian).

 As such, rather than sharing a nice playlist here with you all (that would be too convenient, no?), here is a list of all the songs on heavy rotation lately and links to where you can listen.

 UPDATE July 30 - I've joined the rest of you in 2020 and figured out how to make youtube playlist, see below or here!

 UPDATE August 13 - added a couple songs...

  1. Five and Dime by Hazel English
  2. Cut Me by Moses Sumney
  3. Gospel for a New Century by Yves Tumor
  4. A Few Words for the Firing Squad (Radiation) by Run the Jewels
  5. Catch & Release by Grizzly Coast
  6. Me & You Together Song by The 1975
  7. Strange Girl by Laura Marling
  8. Lilacs by Waxahatchee
  9. My Favourite Mistake (cover) by Esther Rose
  10. You Know How It Feels by Adia Victoria
  11. One Eye on the Sky by Emily Reo
  12. Can't Help Falling in Love (cover) by Sonia Barcelona
  13. Come on Doom, Let's Party (Minimal Recording) by Emily Wells
  14. My Rajneesh by Sufjan Stevens





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