Book Playlist

Heirs of Bone and Sea Playlist

20 tracks

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Oct 8, 2026

With little reliable plot detail to draw on, this sequence follows the imagery suggested by the title: saltwater, bone-deep memory, inheritance, and the pull between danger and belonging. The instrumentals move from spacious and meditative to more propulsive; the vocal half adds songs about kinship, loss, travel, and the sea without assuming specific characters or events.

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Track List

20 songs

1

We Move Lightly

Dustin O'Halloran · Lumiere

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2

Baleen Morning

Balmorhea · Balmorhea

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3

Bent

Kiasmos · Kiasmos

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4

Anthem

Emancipator · Soon It Will Be Cold Enough

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5

Requiem for the Static King, Pt. 1

A Winged Victory for the Sullen · A Winged Victory for the Sullen

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6

Window

The Album Leaf · In A Safe Place

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7

Butterfly Waltz

Brian Crain · Piano and Cello Duet

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8

Eden

Hania Rani · Esja

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9

The Mariner's Revenge Song

The Decemberists · Picaresque

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10

The Sea

Morcheeba · Big Calm

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11

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Gordon Lightfoot · Summertime Dream

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12

Ocean Breathes Salty

Modest Mouse · Good News For People Who Love Bad News

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13

Sons & Daughters

The Decemberists · The Crane Wife

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14

Mykonos

Fleet Foxes · Mykonos

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15

Black Water

Reuben And The Dark · Funeral Sky

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16

Seven Seas

Echo & the Bunnymen · Ocean Rain (Expanded; 2007 Remaster)

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17

The Ship Song - 2010 Remaster

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds · The Good Son (2010 Remaster)

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18

Bloodbuzz Ohio

The National · High Violet

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19

The Swan of Tuonela, Op. 22, No. 3

Jean Sibelius · Bernstein Sibelius - The Symphonies (Remastered Edition)

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20

Song for Sienna

Brian Crain · Piano and Cello Duet

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