Happy Place

Book Playlist

Happy Place Playlist

20 tracks

romantic

Oct 15, 2026

A warm, gently shifting soundscape for Harriet and Wyn’s sunlit week with old friends: spacious instrumentals evoke the coast, the house, and the ease of shared rituals, while a few more intimate passages make room for the hurt beneath their performance of togetherness. The final songs trace the tenderness, uncertainty, and hope of a love that has not quite let go.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Bless This Morning Year

Helios · Eingya

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2

Turn Away and Return

Hammock · Everything and Nothing

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3

Window

The Album Leaf · In A Safe Place

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4

Prelude For Time Feelers

Matthew Robert Cooper · Copia

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5

I Know You Are but What Am I?

Mogwai · Happy Songs for Happy People

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6

Perpetuum Mobile

Penguin Cafe Orchestra · Preludes, Airs And Yodels (A Penguin Cafe Primer)

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7

Looped

Kiasmos · Kiasmos

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8

Anthem

Emancipator · Soon It Will Be Cold Enough

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9

Cirrus

Bonobo · The North Borders

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10

Friday Morning

Khruangbin · Con Todo El Mundo

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A Tender History In Rust

Do Make Say Think · You You're A History In Rust

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12

Goodbye

toe · I Am Shark: Confessions Under Water, Vol. 3

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13

Sketch for Summer

The Durutti Column · The Return of The Durutti Column

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14

Sleeping Lotus

Joep Beving · Solipsism

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15

Plus tôt

Alexandra Streliski · INSCAPE

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16

The Blue Hour

Federico Albanese · The Blue Hour

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17

Water from the Same Source

Christian Erik Frederickson · Systems / Layers

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18

Requiem for the Static King, Pt. 2

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

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19

Sometimes

Goldmund · Sometimes

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20

Equivalent 5

Loscil · Equivalents

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Mood romantic

Genre indie

Era any

Length medium

Instrumental request 90%

Environment balanced

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