This blog needs playlists

I love lists, but I love playlists more.

I had surgery on my leg yesterday, and the fact that I'm all wrapped up in bandages - mummy-like - forces me to bed, and you know what happens when you could be lazy and enjoy your lazy time--you end up wanting to do stuff. I can't complain about being here now, I just hope I'll get to finish this post, since

I've realised I have dozens and dozens of drafts stored on here, and I'll try to finish and hopefully post a couple of those in the next few days.

But it's Spotify I want to write about today. I've started creating playlists based on moods some time ago, but labelling them as 'moods' is a bit of an understatement--my playlists are complex, like moods really are, so here's me trying to phrase them. Hope you like them.



Disagio prêt-à-porter was the first one I created. 'Disagio' roughly translates into 'unease' or 'discomfort,' but it's used by the cool kids nowadays as a state of being - social anxiety(?), nihilism(?), not sure. Anyway, I listen to this playlist to find catharsis when I'm angry, sad, or both, and want to revel in my misery. All these songs are miserable, some angrier, some sadder, some screamy, some ballad-like. They all have miserable titles/verses, but the result of listening to them is reinvigorating rather than just saddening per se. I feel strong and I feel nothing.




Highlights of the playlist:

• The way Penfold scream "And if you were here, then I would take you everywhere"
• The sense of incompleteness in Pedro the Lion's "Almost there / it's on the tip of my tongue / an it never goes away / it never comes to stay"
• The verse "She puts the weights into my little heart" - how can something so short break your heart so harshly?
• "When they love you / and they will / tell them all they'll love in my shadow" - this kills me each time
• "I want a lover I don't have to love / I want a girl who's too sad to give a fuck"
• The metaphor of the "Twin Size Mattress"
•  Good Friday and Degausser - among the most depressing things I've ever heard in my life

 Soothe your_self is a less complex playlist; as the title says, it's meant to be soothing, and I usually listen to it when I'm reading or walking home at night, to pamper my mind and get ready to sleep when I've got too many thoughts running in circles. It was first inspired by the album Horn of Plenty by Grizzly Bear and then I added some post-rock tunes to build a soothing atmosphere.






Speeding into Nowhere is a playlist I created when I discovered Turn on the Summer by The Rutabega; I wanted this song in a playlist so bad that I created one for it; it's still a pretty short one, and I'm constantly looking for something to add to it. It's the playlist of travelling - not necessarily in a literal sense -, of seasons, of the passing of time, of longing and of nostalgia yet with an upbeat note to it.





There are a couple more playlists on my profile you can take a look at if you like, but I won't post them here because they don't mean so much to me.
I hope you liked these ones and I wasn't too shitty at expressing my 'feelings' through the music I listen to, and I'd love to hear any suggestions on stuff to add to the playlists.

Thanks for making it 'till the end of the post!
Claudia