Release me

Book Playlist

Release me Playlist

by Tahereh Mafi

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 26, 2026

This playlist moves from cold, controlled instrumentals that evoke Ark Island’s surveillance state into songs about resisting authority, reclaiming agency, and the strain of protecting someone you love. Its changing intensity follows Rosabelle’s shift from practiced numbness toward a more turbulent, emotionally charged resolve.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Release Me

Engelbert Humperdinck · His Greatest Hits

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2

Release Me

Wilson Phillips · Wilson Phillips

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3

Release Me

Oh Laura · A Song Inside My Head, A Demon In My Bed

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4

Order from Chaos

Max Cooper · Emergence

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5

Ghosst(s)

Lorn · Ask The Dust

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6

My Friend the Forest

Nils Frahm · All Melody

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An Intention

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith · The Kid

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8

The Highest Flood

Forest Swords · Compassion

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9

The How of it Sped

Bing & Ruth · No Home of the Mind

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10

Esther's

Amon Tobin · Foley Room

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11

In the Air III

Tim Hecker · Ravedeath, 1972

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12

A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaning(less) Process

Stars Of The Lid · And Their Refinement of the Decline

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13

A.H.B.

S U R V I V E · RR7349

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14

The Hand That Feeds

Nine Inch Nails · With Teeth (Bonus Tracks)

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15

My Body Is a Cage

Arcade Fire · Neon Bible

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16

The Man Who Sold the World - 2015 Remaster

David Bowie · The Man Who Sold the World (2015 Remaster)

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17

The Seed

AURORA · A Different Kind Of Human – Step 2

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18

Running With The Wolves

AURORA · All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend (Deluxe)

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19

Control

The Birthday Massacre · Pins And Needles

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20

I Know Places

Taylor Swift · 1989 (Deluxe)

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