The Seven Year Slip

Book Playlist

The Seven Year Slip Playlist

by Ashley Poston

20 tracks

romantic

Oct 28, 2026

These instrumentals balance the intimacy of a New York apartment with the strange spaciousness of its shifting timelines, moving from tender piano and chamber-like textures to gently expansive indie soundscapes. The three closing songs bring in the book’s moon-chasing dream, the thrill of falling for someone, and the courage to begin again.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Perpetuum Mobile

Penguin Cafe · Perpetuum Mobile

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2

Kids Will Be Skeletons

Mogwai · Happy Songs for Happy People

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3

Window

The Album Leaf · In A Safe Place

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4

She Just Likes to Fight

Four Tet · There Is Love in You (Expanded Edition)

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5

Auberge Le Mouton Noir

Do Make Say Think · Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn

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6

Theme - 2022 Remaster

Arovane · Tides (2022 Remaster)

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7

Double Dolphins On the Nickel

Mice Parade · Mice Parade

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8

Breathturn

Hammock · Chasing After Shadows... Living With the Ghosts (Deluxe Edition)

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9

Anything You Synthesize

The American Dollar · A Memory Stream

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10

Fragment II

Library Tapes · Fragment

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11

Sketch for Summer

The Durutti Column · The Return of The Durutti Column

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12

P

Labradford · Mi Media Naranja

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13

Such Great Heights

The Postal Service · Give Up

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14

First Day of My Life

Bright Eyes · I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

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15

Plus tôt

Alexandra Streliski · INSCAPE

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16

a new romance

Alexandra Streliski · Néo-Romance

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17

Under The Stars

Clem Leek · 2Pianos I

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18

A.M.

Eluvium · Virga III

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19

Suddenly Becomes Light

Rothko · A Life Lived Elsewhere

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20

I Know You Are but What Am I?

Mogwai · Happy Songs for Happy People

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Mood romantic

Genre indie

Era any

Length medium

Instrumental request 90%

Environment balanced

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