The Ritual

Book Playlist · Autumn Leaves

The Ritual Playlist

20 tracks

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Sep 22, 2026

“Autumn Leaves” leans into The Ritual’s Scandinavian wilderness dread with warm, rain-softened acoustics and gradually intensifying tension. The mix of stark instrumental eeriness and grounded, human vocals mirrors Luke’s isolation, the group’s fraying trust, and the story’s slow drift from camaraderie into survival horror.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Helplessness Blues

Fleet Foxes · Helplessness Blues

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2

The Wolves (Act I and II)

Bon Iver · For Emma, Forever Ago

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3

If We Were Vampires

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit · The Nashville Sound

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4

Bitter Sweet Symphony

The Verve · Cruel Intentions

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5

The Sound of Silence

Disturbed · Immortalized (Deluxe Edition)

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6

Rano Pano

Mogwai · Hardcore Will Never Die, but You Will (Music for a Forgotten Future)

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7

An Ending (Ascent)

Brian Eno · Ascent

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8

Weightless - 253 Edit

Marconi Union · Weightless (253 Edit)

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9

Ghosts

Japan · Greatest Hits: New Romantic

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10

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Neutral Milk Hotel · In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

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11

Rain - Version for Piano Trio

Ryuichi Sakamoto · 1996

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12

Your Hand in Mine

Explosions In The Sky · The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place

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13

The Curse

Agnes Obel · Aventine

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14

Ophelia

The Lumineers · Cleopatra

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15

Where the Light Comes In

Sarah Neufeld · The Ridge

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16

All Blues

Miles Davis · The Columbia Years 1955 - 1985

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17

Seven Nation Army

The White Stripes · Elephant

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18

Take Me Home, Country Roads

John Denver · The John Denver Collection, Vol 1: Take Me Home Country Roads

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19

The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash · American IV: The Man Comes Around

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20

Hurt

Eric Whitacre · Hurt

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