Discover the stillness only the winter can bring – featuring artists like Bon Iver • Novo Amor • Lord Huron • James Bay • The Civil Wars • Hozier • Kodaline • Tom Rosenthal
staying in the balcony on a sunny day – featuring artists like Kim Churchill • Kita Alexander • Foxygen • Mitch Santiago • Crawlers • Jack Conman • Julia Jacklin • Guantanamo Bay Surf Club
REGREssION showcases the powers of falling backward when forward became the new normal – featuring artists like Samia • Post Malone • Rayland Baxter • Harry Styles • Local Natives • COIN • Dave Matthews Band • Mac Miller
Hike up a Hill with this amalgamation of soulful/acoustic/folk/mellow sounds – bound to help you reconnect with yourself! – featuring artists like Ben Howard • Passenger • Kings of Convenience • Sean Rowe • Jeremy Loops • Nick Mulvey • Sami Simon • Sticky Fingers
A rollercoaster ride of emotions – featuring artists like Christian Leave • Damien Rice • Bruno Major • Grizfolk • Vance Joy • Benny Sings • Omar Apollo • Yoke Lore
Vocals and a Guitar. It’s the simplicity in this track that makes it so sentimental. Listen to the lyrics and you’ll see the passion of how love is defined; and how love through the melodies will keep you at ease.
Tracks where the piano – and occasionally the organ make all the difference – featuring artists like Tom Waits • James Leg • The Belfast Cowboys • Lou Reed • Joe Jackson • Wilco • World Party • Nina Simone
These songs feature little or no electronic production and focus majorly on the purity of the instruments – featuring artists like Kodaline • LÉON • Noah Kahan • KALEO • Birdy • Carlie Hanson • Hozier • London Grammar
The best guitar songs, for special occasions and good moments, enjoy! (: – featuring artists like: Baden Powell • Gabriella Quevedo • Augustin Amigó • Francisco Tárrega • Yamandú Costa • Dead Combo • Paco de Lucia • Alexandre Curuma
God I love the story tellers.
The lyricists who construct a reality you can step into, to experience it as if you were there – as if you knew the characters – who do it so seamlessly that – even if it is by proxy – you get to feel the emotions for real.
That’s the point of this list – it’s designed to make you feel – to connect with the emotions that we’re oh so good at keeping hidden, buried under guilt and social conditioning. Because when we don’t deal with those emotions – well – that’s when the bad shit happens…