What’s the most ‘90s thing you can do about a piece of media you like? That’s right: make a mixtape for it.
Fortunately, it’s the future, so there’s no shuffling multiple tape decks or recording things off the radio -- just a Spotify link. Hopefully you will enjoy putting it in your ears.
It is specifically a mix with the novel continuity and aesthetic in mind. (There’s even a song on there for our favorite bubble-based epilogue!) I’ll gladly explain any of these choices, but it’s probably best if you let your imagination do it -- except that I will tip my hand about Wintersleep’s “Orca,” because that is the best Baby Ghost King song I’ve ever heard.
Enough of that! Here’s the link and tracklist. Happy listening!
the last of our kind - a Guardian mix
prologue: Florence + The Machine - Big God
pull down the mountain, drag your cities to the sea
The Staves - Tired as Fuck
put down the phone, put on my gloves and wish me luck
Lucy Dacus - Dream State...
without you I am surely the last of my kind
Rainbow Kitten Surprise - Devil Like Me
you see the devil don't mean to be evil / he just regrettably forgets to exceed expectation
Bishop Briggs - Dream
they say that secrets make you sick and I should know
Amigo the Devil - Hell and You
but I want to be where all the stupid things I say sound so romantic and true
Alana Henderson - Let This Remain
let tonight be a stutter ‘midst the eloquence of days
Llynks - Fantasies
come on, I know just what you hide / yet I’m in your claws every single night
Foie Gras - Red Moon
jump into a lake / extinguish these ghosts inside of me
Emma Ruth Rundle - Darkhorse
so let your heart die, in the springtime that surrounds you
Adna - Beautiful Hell
how it multiplies in my veins / and in my blood and home
Brooke Bentham - I Need Your Body
I love it when you put me your legs over my thighs
Vancouver Sleep Clinic - Killing Me To Love You
I give you my heart just to watch you waste it
Phoebe Bridgers - Halloween
but I can count on you to tell me the truth / when you've been drinking and you're wearing a mask
The Antlers - Doppelgänger
if you're quiet, you can hear the monster breathing
Laura Doggett - Beautiful Undone
it's the cracks that let the light shine through
MXMS - Something in the Way
underneath the bridge / the tarp has sprung a leak
Koda - Leviathan
all my friends are dying to get out
Cathedrals - In the Dark
let it go, let me hold you this time (don’t say a word)
Les Friction - Dark Matter
don't stop, don't think, don't look back / you're a bolt of lightning in the sky now
Lady Lamb - Salt
and in this heaven the horror of its absence / has me trembling beside myself beside you
Wezn - Mountain Side
fire to fire / the world turns / keep on turning
Wintersleep - Orca
I'll be a killer whale when I grow up / I'll be a monster
Our Lady Peace - Holes
there's a hole in the Earth since you've been gone
Soap&Skin - Thanatos
tremor of my heaven son / tares above my kingdom come
Saint Mesa - Lion
diamonds in your skin, my blood flows
Manchester Orchestra - Virgin
you tried to emphasize and side with both your ghosts
Lucy Dacus - ...Familiar Place
without you I am surely the last of our kind
Said The Whale - Wake Up
time makes all things fall together
epilogue: Will Cady & Alan Watts - What Fills the Gap
we haven't realized that life and death, black and white, good and evil, being and non-being, come from the same center