Annihilation

Book Playlist

Annihilation Playlist

by Jeff VanderMeer

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 11, 2026

2 mixes for this book

This playlist follows the expedition from measured scientific observation into Area X’s uncanny, self-renewing wilderness, shifting between spacious electronics, uneasy score-like textures, and songs about secrecy, altered identity, and surrender to the unknown. Its vocal selections trace the biologist’s guarded inwardness and the group’s fractures, while the instrumental opening lets the landscape slowly become stranger before anyone tries to explain it.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Hours

Tycho · Dive

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2

Reach For The Dead

Boards of Canada · Tomorrow's Harvest

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3

Endless Falls

Loscil · Endless Falls

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4

Greenland

Emancipator · Safe in the Steep Cliffs

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5

Untitled #3 - Samskeyti

Sigur Rós · ( )

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6

Two Dots

Lusine · A Certain Distance

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7

Pacific 202

808 State · Ninety

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8

Emerald Rush

Jon Hopkins · Singularity

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9

Collider - Remaster 2023

Jon Hopkins · Immunity

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10

Music For A Found Harmonium

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

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11

Window

The Album Leaf · In A Safe Place

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12

The Rip

Portishead · Third

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13

Teardrop

Massive Attack · Mezzanine

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14

A Forest

The Cure · Seventeen Seconds

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15

Bachelorette

Björk · Homogenic

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16

The Great Below

Nine Inch Nails · The Fragile

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17

My Body Is a Cage

Arcade Fire · Neon Bible

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18

Inertia Creeps

Massive Attack · Mezzanine

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19

The Becoming

Nine Inch Nails · The Downward Spiral (Deluxe Edition)

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20

The Host of Seraphim

Dead Can Dance · A Passage in Time

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