Monthly Mix - October Glow
Music for everything from mellow mists to golden sunsets in the wing mirror and beyond.
My Dearest Friend,
October is a peculiar beast isn’t it? A seasonal hinterland. A month that straddles both summer and winter, sometimes in the same day. All whilst trying to carve out its own identity in the leaf fall and mists that envelope the days.
Today I saw a leaf skipping along the path in front of me as I walked and I wondered where it was skipping to? Another fell from the tree and pirouetted to the ground, fancier than any ballet dance I’ve ever seen.
Whilst summer days bring blue skies that never end, October ones blend the spaces where the earth meets the sky, like they are soulmates embracing after the longest of times.
That might sound dramatic, but in the North you have to find poetry in the mist, so many days are filled with it you’d go mad with sadness if you didn’t
This month’s mix is a blend of music perfect for wandering through early mellow mists (or the haze of sunshine breaking through if you’re just coming into warmer weather), gazing through the lens of a golden sunset in the wing mirror looking back on a beautiful day out somewhere, into evenings filled with conversation and love.
The clocks changed last weekend, we are now on the leaf decorated path to the depths of winter. I hope this mix soundtracks that time beautifully for you, whatever you might be doing.
I’d love it if you shared this post over on Notes and started a mix tape conversation… (if anyone can remind me how to hyperlink that little bit of text that says “shared” so that it directs you to Notes I’d be so very grateful, it is knowledge I had last month that my brain has seen fit to delete).
With love,
V.V
P.S If you love a list or don’t have Spotify, the playlist is below.
Heartbeats - José González
Line of Fire - Junip
Chewing Cotton Wool - The Japanese House
I Inside the Old I Dying - PJ Harvey
Mice - Billie Marten
That Home - The Cinematic Orchestra
Open - Rhye
Playground Love - Air, Gordon Tracks
The Bug Collector - Haley Heynderickx
Need 2 - Pinegrove
Still as the Night - Rowan Drake
Paul - 2023 Remaster - E Big Thief
Boyfriends - Harry Styles
cowboy like me - Taylor Swift
Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers
Alaska - Maggie Rogers
Already Gone - Orion Sun
Wasting My Young Years - London Grammar
ugi - strongboi
Difficult - Gracie Abrams
Cinderella - Remi Wolf
Slow Dance - Clairo
Charmed - Etella, Redinho
Now I'm In It - Bonus Track - HAIM
See Her Out (Thats Just Life) - Francis and the Lights
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