🎵 Music findings #5

Hello everyone, and welcome to issue #5 of Music findings. A fuller one this week — seven new tracks off the playlist, then a stack of mixes for reading, driving, and drifting off:

🎵 Songs

• Metro Boomin, A$AP Rocky, Roisee — Am I Dreaming — the soaring, gospel-lifted closer from the Across the Spider-Verse soundtrack:

• Ravyn Lenae — Love Me Not — silky, featherlight R&B with a hook that keeps circling back:

• Patti Smith — Because the Night — the 1978 slow-burn anthem, co-written with Springsteen and still electric:

• Macon — Stolen Dance (Hypertechno) — the Milky Chance staple sped up into a bouncy hypertechno rework.

• Tkandz, CXSPER — NOW OR NEVER — punchy, high-octane rap song for the gym or the drive.

• Aaron Hibell — destroyer of worlds — cinematic, slow-building melodic techno; all tension and release.

• Yasuharu Takanashi — FAIRY TAIL Main Theme — the triumphant orchestral anime theme that goes straight for the heart.

📺 Videos

• orange soda. — a citrus-themed lofi mix from ggg.; fizzy, mellow, easy to leave running all day.

• jazz before i ascend — ethereal jazz from Defunct to study, work, or fall asleep to.

• Calming NeoSoul & R&B Mix — Snoh Aalegra, Alex Isley, Erykah Badu, Cleo Sol, Masego — a warm, unhurried soul set.

• Nujabes — a playlist for reading — jazzy instrumental hip-hop, curated for a quiet afternoon with a book.

• Arctic Monkeys — Rainy Night Ride With Friends — a moody Arctic Monkeys mix built for wet windows and late-night drives.

🎧 Play them all — the full playlist, where the next issues pull from too:

🗂️ Catch up on past issues.