Brave New World

Book Playlist

Brave New World Playlist

by Aldous Huxley

20 tracks

balanced

Jun 1, 2026

4 mixes for this book

This playlist captures the complex futuristic and dystopian atmosphere of Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" through a blend of electronic and ambient instrumentals paired with vocal tracks that reflect the novel's themes of control, alienation, and the clash between nature and technology. The instrumental selections evoke the sterile, engineered society and the haunting reservation scenes, while the vocal tracks delve into character-driven emotions and philosophical questions raised by the story. The mix of sub-genres and moods mirrors the novel's tension between artificial happiness and underlying disquiet.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Kids Will Be Skeletons

Mogwai · Happy Songs for Happy People

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2

Babel

Lustmord · The Word as Power

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3

Requiem for a Dream

Clint Mansell · Requiem for a Dream

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4

Drifter

Be Svendsen · Drifter

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5

Merry-Go-Round of Life - from 'Howl's Moving Castle'

Joe Hisaishi · FREEDOM PIANO STORIES 4

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6

To Build A Home

The Cinematic Orchestra · Ma Fleur

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7

13 Ghosts II

Nine Inch Nails · Ghosts I-IV

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8

One Battle After Another

Jonny Greenwood · One Battle After Another (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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9

Echoes

Olexandr Ignatov · Echoes

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10

Idioteque

Radiohead · Kid A

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11

Weird Fishes / Arpeggi

Radiohead · In Rainbows

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12

Digital Witness

St. Vincent · St. Vincent

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13

Hyperballad

Björk · Greatest Hits

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14

The Perfect Drug

Nine Inch Nails · Lost Highway

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15

Paranoid Android

Radiohead · OK Computer

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16

Space Song

Beach House · Depression Cherry

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17

Control

Mutemath · Mutemath

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18

The Sound of Silence

Disturbed · Immortalized (Deluxe Edition)

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19

Karma Police

Radiohead · OK Computer

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20

Luminary

Dravelyn · Magical Moments

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