Metamorphosis
Book Playlist

Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

Kafka’s Metamorphosis moves through shock, isolation, domestic strain, and then a bleak, quiet resolution—so this playlist alternates tense-but-readable atmospheres with words that echo alienation and irreversible change. The instrumental half leans into uneasy, shifting textures (a “mind under pressure”), while the vocal half uses grounded indie/folk and art-pop to mirror Gregor’s spiraling relationship to family, duty, and selfhood.

40 tracks
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Sep 22, 2026
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40 songs
1
Arvo Pärt: Portrait

Spiegel im spiegel

Arvo Pärt · Arvo Pärt: Portrait

2
Adagio in G Minor

Adagio in G Minor

Tomaso Albinoni · Adagio in G Minor

3
The Piano: Music From The Motion Picture

The Promise

Michael Nyman · The Piano: Music From The Motion Picture

4
Requiem for a Dream

Requiem for a Dream

Clint Mansell · Requiem for a Dream

5
So Runs The World Away

The Curse

Josh Ritter · So Runs The World Away

6
Chopin: Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2

Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2

Frédéric Chopin · Chopin: Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2

7
Träumerei - Liebestraum - Für Elise - Clair de lune - Gymnopédie - Sony Classical Masters

Clair de lune

Claude Debussy · Träumerei - Liebestraum - Für Elise - Clair de lune - Gymnopédie - Sony Classical Masters

8
Erik Satie & Friends

Gymnopédie No. 1

Erik Satie · Erik Satie & Friends

9
Harry's House

As It Was

Harry Styles · Harry's House

10
Pablo Honey

Creep

Radiohead · Pablo Honey

11
American IV: The Man Comes Around

Hurt

Johnny Cash · American IV: The Man Comes Around

12
A Rush of Blood to the Head

The Scientist

Coldplay · A Rush of Blood to the Head

13
Ain't That Good News

A Change Is Gonna Come

Sam Cooke · Ain't That Good News

14
Hozier

Take Me To Church

Hozier · Hozier

15
Making Mirrors

Somebody That I Used To Know

Gotye · Making Mirrors

16
Hopes And Fears

Somewhere Only We Know

Keane · Hopes And Fears

17
Tracy Chapman

Fast Car

Tracy Chapman · Tracy Chapman

18
Songs From The Big Chair

Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Tears For Fears · Songs From The Big Chair

19
Colour The Small One

Breathe Me

Sia · Colour The Small One

20
In A Perfect World (Expanded Edition)

All I Want

Kodaline · In A Perfect World (Expanded Edition)

21
Cleopatra

Ophelia

The Lumineers · Cleopatra

22
Young And Beautiful

Young And Beautiful

Lana Del Rey · Young And Beautiful

23
In The Lonely Hour

Stay With Me

Sam Smith · In The Lonely Hour

24
Strange Trails

The Night We Met

Lord Huron · Strange Trails

25
Songs From A Secret Garden

Nocturne

Secret Garden · Songs From A Secret Garden

26
The Singer

The Sound of Silence

Simon & Garfunkel · The Singer

27
Come Away With Me (Super Deluxe Edition)

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones · Come Away With Me (Super Deluxe Edition)

28
WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?

bury a friend

Billie Eilish · WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?

29
Odyssey / Sonne

Odyssey

Rival Consoles · Odyssey / Sonne

30
Insides

Light Through The Veins

Jon Hopkins · Insides

31
Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded

Take A Bow

Rihanna · Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded

32
Everything in Its Right Place (Radiohead Remixed)

Paranoid Android

Sybarite5 · Everything in Its Right Place (Radiohead Remixed)

33
A Moment Apart

A Moment Apart

ODESZA · A Moment Apart

34
Divenire (Deluxe Edition)

Divenire

Ludovico Einaudi · Divenire (Deluxe Edition)

35
Ocean Eyes

ocean eyes

Billie Eilish · Ocean Eyes

36
Number Three

The Light Behind Your Eyes

My Chemical Romance · Number Three

37
MCP Performs The 1975: I like it when you sleep...

Somebody Else

Molotov Cocktail Piano · MCP Performs The 1975: I like it when you sleep...

38
Melodrama

Liability

Lorde · Melodrama

39
Currents

The Less I Know The Better

Tame Impala · Currents

40
Grace

Hallelujah

Jeff Buckley · Grace

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