This Inevitable Ruin
Book Playlist

This Inevitable Ruin Playlist

by Matt Dinniman

35 tracks
balanced
Jul 15, 2026
4 mixes for this book

This playlist captures the strategic, tense, and otherworldly atmosphere of 'This Inevitable Ruin.' The instrumental selections blend ambient electronic textures, cinematic tension, and post-rock expansiveness to evoke the alien factions and battlefield dynamics, while the few vocal tracks explore themes of betrayal, ambition, and survival. Together, they create a cozy yet intense sonic environment perfect for immersing in Matt Dinniman's science fantasy saga.

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Track List

35 songs
1

Moon In Your Eye

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith · I Could Be Your Dog / I Could Be Your Moon

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2

I Can Almost See You

Hammock · Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo (Deluxe Edition)

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3

Entropy

Distrion · NCS: Infinity

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4

Phantom Limb

Cassyette · This World Still Fucking Sucks

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5

Sometimes

Goldmund · Sometimes

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6

Nebula Drift

Matsonic · Nebula Drift

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7

Awake

Tycho · Awake

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8

The Winter

Balmorhea · Rivers Arms

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9

Chukhung

Biosphere · Substrata + Man with a Movie Camera

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10

Looped

Kiasmos · Kiasmos

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11

Fragrance

Alexis Georgopoulos · Fragments of a Season

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12

Your Hand in Mine

Explosions In The Sky · The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place

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13

Boreal Kiss Pt. 1

Tim Hecker · Haunt Me

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14

DAWAN

Apparat · LP5

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15

The Birds

Telefon Tel Aviv · Immolate Yourself

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Echo Chamber

Nekta · Auralis

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17

Ambre

Nils Frahm · Wintermusik

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18

A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaning(less) Process

Stars Of The Lid · And Their Refinement of the Decline

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19

Greenland

Emancipator · Safe in the Steep Cliffs

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20

Fallen

Helios Creed · Chromagnum Man

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21

Fragment II

Library Tapes · Fragment

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22

Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan

Boards of Canada · Inferno

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23

Far

C418 · Minecraft - Volume Beta

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24

Dreamer's Wake

Rival Consoles · Persona

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25

Perpetual Motion

Max Cooper · Yearning for the Infinite

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26

Strobe (Extended Dirty Mix)

John Murphy · Strobe EP

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27

last breath

Øneheart · last breath

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28

Lux Aeterna

Clint Mansell · Requiem for a Dream / OST

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29

Eternia

Daniel Pemberton · Masters of the Universe (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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30

Falling

Ben Salisbury · Ex Machina (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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31

Legacy

Sara Landry · Legacy

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32

The Brothel

Susanne Sundfør · The Brothel

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33

Survivor

Destiny's Child · Survivor

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34

All or Nothing

VC Muse · Concentric

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35

I Built My House on the Tree

Luminary Flux · Dream Department

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Length long
Instrumental request 90%
Environment cozy

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3 more mixes for This Inevitable Ruin

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  1. Matched to the book 90% instrumental 37 tracks · Jul 15, 2026Open
  2. Matched to the book 50% instrumental 39 tracks · Sep 8, 2026Open
  3. Matched to the book All vocal 12 tracks · Sep 8, 2026Open

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