Romantic Songs Playlist for Valentine's Day 2021

Filled mostly with songs from the past year beyond a trip down memory lane to acoustic soul baring songs by Damien Rice, Ray LaMontagne and Devendra Banhart plus an old gem by Radiohead. Give a  listen to my Romantic Songs Playlist for Valentine's Day 2021 on Spotify here.  

For further inspiration, visit my posts from past years:  2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, and 2012.

1. "Never Tear Us Apart" – The National

2. "Guess Again" – Jeff Tweedy

3. "The Animals Were Gone" – Damien Rice

4. "Within You" – Ray LaMontagne

5. "Never Seen Such Good Things" – Devendra Banhart

6. "As the Sun Sets" – Sorry

7. "Crush" – Day Wave

8. "Pattern 17" – Jamison Isaak

9. "Love is All We Share" – Cut Copy

10. "Moonlight" – Future Islands

11. "One More Second" – Matt Berninger

12. "My Heart Bleeds" – Rhye

13. "Hurt" – Arlo Parks

14. "Fire for You" – Cannons

15. "Feel You" – My Morning Jacket

16. "Fake Plastic Trees" – Radiohead

17. "Apes & Children" – Lane 8

18. "Dawn Chorus" – Jon Hopkins

Top 20+ Songs of 2020

Another round up with my fave songs of the year – the music that kept me somewhat sane during a very trying year – listed not by preference but how best to order them.  Listen as a Spotify playlist here. 

1. "Friday" – Real Estate

2. "You're Not Alone" – Semisonic

3. "Through the Trees" – Phantom Planet

4. "Become a Mountain" – Dan Deacon

5. "Is it True" – Tame Impala

6. "Cut it Loose" – Maxband

7. "Olympik" – EOB

8. "Love Is the King" – Jeff Tweedy

9. "The Great Divide" – The Shins

10. "Fear of Heights" – Wye Oak

11. "For Sure" – Future Islands

12. "Too Late" – Washed Out

13. "One More Second" – Matt Berninger

14. "You and I" – Caribou

15. "Videostores" – Quivers

16. "Wildfires" – SAULT

17. "Prisoners" – Doves

18. "Dear Stranger" – STRFKR

19. "Feel You" – My Morning Jacket

20. "Will You Return/When You Come Down" – The Flaming Lips

21. "All Visible Objects" – Moby

Top Ten Releases of 2020 – Plus Others Worthy of a Listen

Here's my list of the Top 10 Albums of 2020 – check them out on Spotify 

at the link here.

And this year my Fave Albums of 2020 playlist is almost 40 hours long, as I added new music worth a listen before choosing just ten. So in no particular order, here you go!

1. Tame Impala, The Slow Rush
2. Dan Deacon, Mystic Familiar
3. Caribou, Suddenly
4. Real Estate, The Main Thing
5. EOB, Earth
6. Doves, The Universal Want
7. Future Islands, As Long As You Are
8. Matt Berninger, Serpentine Prison
9. Jeff Tweedy, Love is the King
10. Moby, All Visible Objects

Fall 2020 New Music Playlist

 Listen on Spotify, enjoy!

1. "Music Makes Me High" – The Avalanches

2. "I Just Want to Dance" – SAULT

3. "Be a Rebel" – New Order

4. "Guess Again" – Jeff Tweedy

5. "Moonlight" – Future Islands

6. "The Great Divide" – The Shins

7. "Cut it Loose" – Maxband

8. "Monolithic" – Cults

9. "Rainzow" – STRFKR

10. "Midnight Moment" – Woods

11. "Emily" – Declan McKenna

12. "One More Second" – Matt Berninger

13. "Aguas Frescas" – LNZNDRF

14. "Stories Going 'Round" – Nada Surf

15. "Future Lover" – Local Natives

16. "Apes & Children" – Lane 8

Winter 2019 New Music Playlist

Listen on Spotify, enjoy!

1. "Shelter" – Broken Bells
2. "Ordinary Pleasure" – Toro y Moi
3. "All I want" – Broken Social Scene
4. "Landside" – Beirut
5. "Greenpoint Gothic" – Deerhunter
6.  "Exit - Edits" – Foals
7.  "Lux, Prima" – Karen O, Danger Mouse
8.  "All I Want" – Matt Berninger, Stephan Altman, Julien Baker
9. "I Know What It's Like" – Jeff Tweedy
10. "Spring" – Teen Daze
11. "Andromeda" – Weyes Blood
12. "Blue Wings" – Wild Nothing
13. "Wishing Cap" – Crane Like the Bird
14. "Drastic Measures" – Bayonne
15. "Neapolitan Sky" – Avett Brothers
16. "Check the Weather" – Pavo Pavo
17. "Ibrik" – Bonobo
18. "Stay" – Sharon Van Etten