Instrumental jazz, guitar, and piano pieces give Hidden Beach a spacious, weathered feel, while the vocal songs turn toward family secrets, uneasy belonging, and the collision of very different personalities. The sequence moves from curiosity and summer openness into conflict and emotional fracture, then leaves room for the possibility of connection.
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20 songsBlue Train
John Coltrane · Blue Train
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So What
Miles Davis · Pleasantville -Music From The Motion Picture
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Take the "A" Train
Duke Ellington · Piano In The Background (Expanded Edition)
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Cantaloupe Island
Herbie Hancock · The Complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions
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Green Onions
Booker T. & the M.G.'s · Green Onions
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Soul Bossa Nova
Quincy Jones · Big Band Bossa Nova
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Rumble
Link Wray · Six Strings Of Bad Luck
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Jessica
Allman Brothers Band · Brothers And Sisters (Deluxe Edition)
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Misirlou
Dick Dale · Surfing Past The Warning Signs
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Longing / Love
George Winston · Autumn (Piano Solos)
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The Sea
Morcheeba · Big Calm
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Ribs
Lorde · Pure Heroine
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Family Tree
Ethel Cain · Preacher’s Daughter
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The Mother We Share
CHVRCHES · The Bones Of What You Believe
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Bros
Wolf Alice · My Love Is Cool
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Your Best American Girl
Mitski · Puberty 2
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Hard Drive
Cassandra Jenkins · An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
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The Suburbs
Arcade Fire · The Suburbs (Deluxe)
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cellophane
FKA twigs · MAGDALENE
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Liability
Lorde · Melodrama
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Same book, another mood