45 Introspective playlists

Contemplation In Indigo

Hot tracks that’ll make you motivated af to get stuff done – featuring artists like Radiohead • Roots Manuva • Bombay Bicycle Club • Ian Brown • Garbage • Cinematic Orchestra • Gorillaz • Depeche Mode

Glory Of The Glacial Galaxy

moving through glaciers gifted by Going to the Sun… – featuring artists like Dungen • Jefre Cantu-Ledesma • Harold Budd • Laura Groves • Leifur James • Laraaji • Pharoh Sanders • Alice Coltrane

Mad World – Gary Jules w/ Michael Andrews

All around me are familiar faces Worn out places, worn out faces Bright and early for the daily races Going nowhere, going nowhere…

goin’ to the beach in my mind

Escape to your peaceful place in this genre-less haven – featuring artists like Noname • chromonocci • Tash Sultana • Porches • Isaiah Mostafa • Tom Misch • Sofía Valdés

Strangers

What today’s insight has granted me is the knowledge that if you don’t check in on yourself, you’ll lose touch with yourself. You’ll become unfamiliar with each other, and it feels very strange. I honestly think this is what it means to feel out of sorts.

MASSA – Tyler, The Creator

Hop on the freedom train with one of the standout tracks from the mid-year candidate for Album of the Year.

Hyperflow

I don’t know what’s going on for you right now, but if you feel like you need to take a couple of hours to float down a river of sound, you’re in the right place. Hyperflow is built for that next-level of escapism, when you’re having a real hard time disengaging. Featuring artists like: Solar Fields • Jason Barty • ford. • Robot Koch • Emancipator • Cygna • IHF • L’Indécis

Stone Robot’s New England Weather Mix — a playlist by Stone Robot • powered by musicto

The forecast for this playlist: Heavy winds and sunny grooves followed by clouds of introspection and heartbreaking rains that give way to thunderous and lightning rage, before the sun reemerges to melt your face–only to repeat the cycle in a different order – featuring artists like Nine Inch Nails • Twenty-one Pilots • Tool • Santigold • Bad Brains • The Roots • Faith No More • The Beastie Boys

Wolves – Kota the Friend & Statik Selektah

Separate from the pack with the leadoff track from Kota and Friend and Statik Selektah’s outstanding album

Let Me Fly – DMX

One degree of separation between me, my grandmother, and DMX

Try Again – Ovrkast.

Underground Bay Area hip-hop. What else do you need to know?

Ego Food

We don’t like feeling like we can just force ourselves to adopt values. For me to want to be compassionate, to want to manifest in a particular way, a way that is kind and free of judgement or bitterness, is not what feeds the ego.