Study Playlist

Vibe

This band truly has something for everyone. The multi-dimensional instrumentals are perfectly complimented by frontman Matt Beringer's dark, melancholy lyrics. 

Best album

Trouble Will Find Me 

Recommended songs

I Need My Girl, Slipped, Graceless, Baby We’ll Be Fine, This Is the Last Time, Nobody Else Will Be There, Sleep Well Beast, Mr. November, Tropic Morning News, Eucalyptus, ELVY: (Are These My Jets, Return to the Moon, I'm The Man to Be, Paul is Alive)

Vibe

calm with thoughtful lyrics and rich, down-to-earth instrumentation.

Best album

Every Kingdom

Recommended songs

Old Pine, Diamonds, Only Love, Everything, Black Flies, Follies Fixtures, Rookery, Couldn’t Make It Up, Richmond Avenue, Someone In the Doorway Murmurations, I Forget Where We Were, River In Your Mouth, Evergreen, She Treats Me Well

Vibe

Known for her haunting lyrics, stripped of any inauthenticity and melancholy tone, Phoebe Bridgers paints pictures of damaged relationships, fragility and her childhood in Pasadena, CA, USA. 

Best Album

Punisher/Stranger in the Alps

Recommended Songs

ICU, Smoke Signals, Motion Sickness, Funeral, Scott Street, Garden Song, Kyoto, Punisher, Halloween, Chinese Satellite, Moon Song, Dylan Thomas, Sleep Walkin’

Vibe

Peaceful, adventurous with running motifs that are evidenced in every song

Best Album

Strange Trails

Recommended Songs

Hurricane, Fool For Love, Meet Me in the Woods, Frozen Pines, Louisa The Night We Met, Wait by the River, Back from the Edge, When the Night is Over, Vide Noir, Ancient Names p.1, The Moon Doesnt Mind, I Lied

Vibe

Punchy Lyrics with rhythmic, snare-heavy instrumentals

Best Album

Turn on the Bright Lights

Recommended Songs

Obstacle 1, NYC, PDA, Lights, Passenger, The Rover, All the Ways, All the Rage Back Home, My Desire, My Blue Supreme, Breaker 1, Twice as Hard, Everything is Wrong

Vibe

imperfect sound, heavy lyrics, indie-inspired instrumentals. The Backseat Lovers sound is a close relative to Peach-Pit. 

Best Album

When We Were Friends 

Recommended Songs

Pool House, Kilby girl, Dugout, Maple Syrup, Davy Crochet, Growing/Dying

Vibe

Indie sound that surpasses any traditional music genre, Raw, accapella style lyrics focus on Love, loss, loneliness and self-discovery

Best album

How to: Live, Love, Freefall

Recommended Songs

Mission to Mars, Its Called: Freefall, Matchbox, Moody Orange, Painkillers, American Shoes, Wasted, Cocaine Jesus, Goonight Chicago, All’s Well that Ends

Vibe

British Post Punk sound with heavy guitar riffs and punchy bass lines combined perfectly with frontman Alex Turner's swooning Sheffield accent.

Best Album

Take your pick

Recommended Songs

Star treatment, Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino, Four out of Five, Bat Phone, Anyways, Black treacle, Piledriver Waltz, Stuck on a Puzzle, Reckless Serenade, Are U Mine?, Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts, Crying Lightning, Secret Door, Cornerstone, Do I Wanna Know?, No.1 Party Anthem, Why’d You Only Call Me When Your High

Vibe

Folk sound featuring light, finger-picked guitar and introspective lyrics touching the human experience.

Best Album

Stick Season/ Cape Elizabeth EP

Recommended Songs

Northern Attitude, Stick Season, All My Love, She Calls Me Back, Dial Drunk, Maine, Anyway, Close Behind

Vibe

Considered one of the greatest lyricists in history, Dylan combines Guitars, harmonicas, percussive instrumentation and train horns to create a sound that, when mixed with his flaying voice, is enchanting.

Best Album

Highway 61 Revisited

Recommended Songs

Mr. Tambourine Man, It Ain’t Me Babe, Subterranean Homesick Blues, I Want You, Positively 4th Street, Highway 61 Revisited, Like a Rolling Stone, Tombstone Blues, Maggies Farm, Ballad of a Thin Man, Desolation Row, Oxford Town, The Times They Are A-Changing