Automatic Noodle
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Automatic Noodle

by Annalee Newitz

This playlist blends futuristic electronic instrumentals with warm, intimate vocal tracks, reflecting the near-future setting and the heartwarming story of robots finding purpose and community through food. The instrumental selections evoke the robotic yet soulful atmosphere of the noodle shop, while the vocal songs explore themes of identity, connection, and resilience, paralleling the characters' emotional arcs and the novella's cozy sci-fi vibe.

20 tracks
balanced
Apr 7, 2026
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Track List

20 songs
0
Gravity

Only in the Dark

Ben Lukas Boysen · Gravity

1
Trance Frendz

20:17

Ólafur Arnalds · Trance Frendz

2
Floating Points III: Eternity

Cascade

Pink Ranger · Floating Points III: Eternity

3
Grandpa’s Story

Softly Spoken

Baby LaLa · Grandpa’s Story

4
Victims of The Modern Age (Re-issue 2022) [Deluxe Edition]

Digital Rain

Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Star One · Victims of The Modern Age (Re-issue 2022) [Deluxe Edition]

5
Awake

L

Tycho · Awake

6
Night Sky

Night Sky

Nathaniel Rembrandt · Night Sky

7
Remembrance

Isostacy

Helios · Remembrance

8
Goldmund

Awake

Albert Lax · Goldmund

9
Cyanide Sisters EP

Cyanide Sisters

Com Truise · Cyanide Sisters EP

10
Pop Internacional Pra Dançar

Electric Feel

MGMT · Pop Internacional Pra Dançar

11
Yael Naim

New Soul

Yael Naim · Yael Naim

12
Best Of 2017 Indie

Die Young

Sylvan Esso · Best Of 2017 Indie

13
Signs of Light

All We Ever Knew

The Head And The Heart · Signs of Light

14
Indie Girls

I Follow Rivers

Lykke Li · Indie Girls

15
Summerly: Music for the Start of Summer 2023

Space Between Us

Beach House Chillout Music Academy & Cool Chillout Zone · Summerly: Music for the Start of Summer 2023

16
Kill For Love

Into The Black

Chromatics · Kill For Love

17
Atlas: Life

Atlas: Life

Sleeping At Last · Atlas: Life

18
Infinite Memories (1)

Midnight City

EDANII · Infinite Memories (1)

19
This Year (Under the Lights)

This Year (Under the Lights)

Luminary Flux · This Year (Under the Lights)

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Length medium
Instrumental 50%
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