We Fell Apart
Book Playlist

We Fell Apart Playlist

by E. Lockhart

40 tracks
balanced
Nov 13, 2026
2 mixes for this book

The instrumental half moves between open-water spaciousness and the uneasy intimacy of a deteriorating seaside home, echoing Matilda’s arrival and the secrets she finds there. The vocal half turns toward fractured family bonds, guarded selves, and the longing to belong, with shifts in energy to reflect a summer that holds both possibility and strain.

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Track List

40 songs
1

Bibo no Aozora

Ryuichi Sakamoto · Playing the Piano 12122020

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2

Valse triste, Op. 44, No. 1

Jean Sibelius · Sibelius: Music From Timo Koivusalo's Film

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4 Impromptus, Op. 90, D. 899: No. 3 in G-flat major

Franz Schubert · Schubert

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Intermezzo In E Flat Major, Op. 117 No. 1

Johannes Brahms · Brahms Intermezzi

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Gnossienne: No. 3

Erik Satie · Satie: Avant-dernières pensées (Bonus Track Version)

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Raven

GoGo Penguin · A Humdrum Star

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7

Kandaiki

Mammal Hands · Animalia

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8

Ruins

Portico Quartet · Portico Quartet

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9

The Birth and Death of the Day

Explosions In The Sky · All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone

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10

Piano Phase

Steve Reich · Early Works

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Shéhérazade, Op. 35: I. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov · Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Shéhérazade

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Gnossienne No. 4

Erik Satie · Satie: The Magic of Satie

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13

The Great Escape

Patrick Watson · Close to Paradise

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14

Blood

The Middle East · The Recordings of the Middle East

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15

The Mother We Share

CHVRCHES · The Bones Of What You Believe

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16

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Neutral Milk Hotel · In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

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17

The Kids Aren't Alright

The Offspring · Americana

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18

Matilda

Harry Styles · Harry's House

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19

Castle on the Hill

Ed Sheeran · ÷ (Deluxe)

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20

Ribs

Lorde · Pure Heroine

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21

Breathe Me

Sia · Colour The Small One

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22

Youth

Glass Animals · How To Be A Human Being

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23

A Better Son/Daughter

Rilo Kiley · The Execution Of All Things

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24

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire · The Suburbs (Deluxe)

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25

Runaway

AURORA · All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend (Deluxe)

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26

Hard Drive

Cassandra Jenkins · An Overview on Phenomenal Nature

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27

Seventeen

Sharon Van Etten · Remind Me Tomorrow

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28

Silk

Wolf Alice · My Love Is Cool

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29

I Know The End

Phoebe Bridgers · Punisher

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30

No Children

The Mountain Goats · Tallahassee

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31

Little Talks

Of Monsters and Men · My Head Is An Animal

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32

Youth

Daughter · If You Leave

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33

White Winter Hymnal

Fleet Foxes · Fleet Foxes

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34

August 10

Khruangbin · Con Todo El Mundo

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35

A Hymn

Khruangbin · Con Todo El Mundo

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36

Wonderful Land

The Shadows · Shadows Are Go!

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37

Tear Drop

Santo & Johnny · Island Songs (Music in Paradise)

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38

Flamenco Sketches

Miles Davis · Kind of Blue

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39

Skating In Central Park

Bill Evans · Undercurrent

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40

Oblivion

Astor Piazzolla · Piazzolla Tangos 6

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