20 Chill Tunes to Freshen Up Your Playlists

Are you tired of listening to the same pop songs on replay? Are you looking for some music that ventures outside of your comfort zone? If so, I have some recommendations for you. I personally am a big fan of indie/alternative music and have spent many hours skimming through Spotify and YouTube trying to find my next favorite group or song. I’ve created a little hodge-podge playlist of some of my favorites ranging from uplifting to angsty to lacksidasical, so keep reading and enjoy some of my favorite tunes.

1. Pinegrove- “Old Friends”

“Walking outside labyrinthian over cracks along under the trees

I know this town grounded in a compass

Cardinal landed in the dogwood”

2. Varsity- “So Sad, So Sad”

“I rely upon the sham

To help me explain why I will never be the same

Trying to be a perfect circle

Weak just like I take my drinks

A crumb upon my plate leads to a week of crying streaks”

3. Islands- “No Milk, No Sugar”

“Would it be the cream, If only a machine could make us dream again?”

4. Mellow Fellow – “Best Friend”

“3 million ways

To let you down

And I don’t even know

Where to start”

5. No Vacation- “Yam Yam”

“Staring at a distance, this warmth is hard to find

Sitting in the silence, I gave my best; I tried”

6. Tennis- “Modern Woman”

“Kate, I’m so afraid you hate me

I think I might have made it true

There’s no need to implicate me

You were never one for proof”

7. Whitney – “Polly”

“Anytime I feel my week is nearly over

I lay awake in all kinds of darkness, Polly”

8. HUNNY- “July”

“You are a past life

You leave the pain in your eyes for me to find”

9. Bad Suns- “Daft Pretty Boys”

“She’s a sunrise dressed like dusk

Going out, she’s getting into something

He’s a moth drawn to a flame”

10. BØRNS- “Clouds”

“I forget all my dreams

I forget everyone’s name I meet

I forget about time and space

But I can’t stop thinking ’bout your face”

11. Don Broco- “You Wanna Know”

“Called me up one day

Said you didn’t mind

Just called to find out

What you thought already”

12. Boy Pablo – “Ur Phone”

“But I’ve never had the courage

To ask you to be with me

But trust me, I’m gonna step up my game”

13. Mac Demarco- “Ode to Viceroy”

“Early in the morning

Just trying to let the sun in

And open up my eyes”

14. Johnny Goth – “Feels Like We’re Dying”

“It feels like we are slowly dying

all the time

because we are”

15. Soko – “Sweet Sounds of Ignorance”

“I lost all my trust

I don’t welcome strangers anymore

And all I ever heard was the

Sweet sound of ignorance”

16. Her’s – “Marcel”

“Wanna ride your wave again

Don’t tell me I can just pretend I love you, but there’s still a taste

Don’t know if you’ll always be amazed”

17. Frankie Cosmos – “Fool”

“Once I was happy

I found it intriguing

Then you got to me

Left me bleeding”

18. Hobo Johnson- “Peach Scones”

“Oh, you got a man? Are you in love? If so, what type?

Is it just platonic, strictly just as friends

Or the type that ties you two together ’til tomorrow’s end?”

19. Alvvays – “Archie, Marry Me”

“You’ve expressed explicitly your contempt for matrimony

You’ve student loans to pay and will not risk the alimony”

20. Summer Salt- “Driving to Hawaii”

“Maybe if we get there

Things will be much easier

And life won’t be nothing anymore”

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