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Yesteryear Playlist
A split-screen soundtrack for Natalie’s polished ranch-life performance and the threatening reality underneath it: country and Americana songs evoke the labor, marriage, and image-making of the homestead, while tense electronic, post-rock, and cinematic instrumentals gradually unsettle its calm. The sequence moves from pastoral composure through suspicion and fracture toward a hard-won sense of self, with the vocal tracks kept varied enough to sit alongside reading.
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40 songs
1
Tick Of The Clock
Chromatics · Music To Drive
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2
Heels
Disasterpeace · It Follows (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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3
Is That What Everybody Wants
Cliff Martinez · Solaris (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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4
The Proposition #1
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis · The Proposition (Original Soundtrack)
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5
Ashes in the Snow
MONO · Holy Ground: NYC Live with the Wordless Music Orchestra
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Requiem for the Static King, Pt. 1
A Winged Victory for the Sullen · A Winged Victory for the Sullen
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The How of it Sped
Bing & Ruth · No Home of the Mind
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An Intention
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith · The Kid
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9
Endless Falls
Loscil · Endless Falls
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Requiem for Dying Mothers, Pt. 2
Stars Of The Lid · The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
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11
Virginal II
Tim Hecker · Virgins
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12
dlp 1.1
William Basinski · The Disintegration Loops (Remastered)
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13
Recovery
Rival Consoles · Odyssey / Sonne
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14
The Highest Flood
Forest Swords · Compassion
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15
Olson
Boards of Canada · Music Has The Right To Children
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16
Anthem
Emancipator · Soon It Will Be Cold Enough
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17
Kiara
Bonobo · Black Sands
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18
Two Thousand and Seventeen
Four Tet · New Energy
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19
Looped
Kiasmos · Kiasmos
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20
Window
The Album Leaf · In A Safe Place
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21
An Ending (Ascent)
Brian Eno · Ascent
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22
A Walk
Tycho · Dive
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23
The House That Built Me
Miranda Lambert · Revolution
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24
Mama's Hungry Eyes
Merle Haggard · 17 Number 1's
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25
Coal Miner's Daughter
Loretta Lynn · Honky Tonk Girl: The Loretta Lynn Collection
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26
The Devil Went Down to Georgia
The Charlie Daniels Band · A Decade Of Hits
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27
Family Tradition
Hank Williams, Jr. · Family Tradition
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28
Merry Go 'Round
Kacey Musgraves · Same Trailer Different Park
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29
Harper Valley P.T.A.
Jeannie C. Riley · Harper Valley P.T.A. (The Plantation Recordings 1968-70)
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30
The Pill
Loretta Lynn · Back To The Country
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31
Jolene
Dolly Parton · Jolene (Expanded Edition)
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32
The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia
Vicki Lawrence · The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia (Deluxe Edition)
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33
Goodbye Earl
The Chicks · Fly
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34
Ain't No Grave
Crooked Still · Shaken By A Low Sound
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35
The House of the Rising Sun
The Animals · The House of the Rising Sun: Best of The Animals
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Black Sheep
Gin Wigmore · Gravel & Wine
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37
THE DINER
Billie Eilish · HIT ME HARD AND SOFT
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38
Control
Janet Jackson · Control
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You Don't Own Me
Lesley Gore · Lesley Gore Sings Of Mixed-Up Hearts
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