Defy the Dusk

Book Playlist

Defy the Dusk Playlist

by Danielle L Jensen

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 26, 2026

This playlist moves between the stark, unsettled textures of a world broken by catastrophe and the more urgent rhythms of survival, resistance, and dangerous attraction. Its instrumental opening evokes hostile landscapes and hard-won shelter; the vocal half turns toward defiance, divided loyalties, and the charged bond between Lirien and Vox.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Death Is the Road to Awe (feat. Kronos Quartet)

Clint Mansell · The Fountain OST

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2

The Big Ship - 2004 Remaster

Brian Eno · Another Green World (2004 Remaster)

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3

Alberto Balsalm

Aphex Twin · ...I Care Because You Do

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4

Breathturn

Hammock · Chasing After Shadows... Living With the Ghosts (Deluxe Edition)

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5

The Birth and Death of the Day

Explosions In The Sky · All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone

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6

Fragile

God Is An Astronaut · All Is Violent, All Is Bright (2011 Remastered Edition)

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7

The Earth Prelude

Ludovico Einaudi · 12 Songs From Home

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8

Run Boy Run

Woodkid · The Golden Age

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9

The Wolf

SIAMES · BOUNCE INTO THE MUSIC

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10

Devil's Backbone

The Civil Wars · The Civil Wars

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11

Wolf Like Me

TV On The Radio · Return To Cookie Mountain

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12

Way down We Go

KALEO · A/B

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13

Burn the Witch

Radiohead · A Moon Shaped Pool

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14

The River

PJ Harvey · Is This Desire?

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15

Human

Sevdaliza · Ison

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16

Blood // Water

grandson · Blood // Water

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17

Howl

Florence + The Machine · Lungs (Deluxe Version)

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18

Turquoise Hexagon Sun

Boards of Canada · Music Has The Right To Children

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19

Emerald Rush

Jon Hopkins · Singularity

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20

Looped

Kiasmos · Kiasmos

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