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Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe Playlist
20 tracks
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Oct 26, 2026
The instrumental opening moves between desolate space, ritual-like tension, and fractured calm, echoing the collection’s decaying environments and warped dream logic. The vocal half turns toward alienation, dread, and unstable perception, with distinct voices and styles reflecting Ligotti’s shifts between lurid imagination and clinical unease.
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20 songs
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dlp 1.1
William Basinski · The Disintegration Loops (Remastered)
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2
Painless Steel
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore · Sunset Mission
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3
It Took the Night to Believe
sunn O))) · Black One
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Vers la flamme, Op. 72
Alexander Scriabin · Scriabin: Sonatas, Études, Poèmes, Feuillet d'album; Vers la flamme
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Night on Bald Mountain
Modest Mussorgsky · Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition & Night on Bald Mountain
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Chukhung
Biosphere · Substrata + Man with a Movie Camera
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Plainsong - Remastered
The Cure · Disintegration (Deluxe Edition)
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Climbing Up the Walls
Radiohead · OK Computer
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The River
PJ Harvey · Is This Desire?
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Feral Love
Chelsea Wolfe · Pain Is Beauty
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Screen Shot
Swans · To Be Kind
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12
Machine Gun
Portishead · Third
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13
Avalanche
Leonard Cohen · Songs of Love and Hate
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14
The Boy With The Gun
David Sylvian · Secrets Of The Beehive (Remastered 2003)
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15
Demon Host
Timber Timbre · Timber Timbre
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If I Had a Heart
Fever Ray · Fever Ray
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The Dream of Jacob - 1994 Remastered Version
Krzysztof Penderecki · Penderecki: Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, Canticum canticorum Salomonis, De natura sonoris Nos. 1 & 2
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Articulate Silences, Pt. 1
Stars Of The Lid · And Their Refinement of the Decline
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19
The Things I Tell You
Biosphere · Substrata + Man with a Movie Camera
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