Book Playlist

Empty Heaven Playlist

by Freddie Kölsch

17 tracks

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Sep 6, 2026

“Empty Heaven” moves between hush and fracture—searching for meaning in spaces that feel spiritually absent, then briefly catching light. This playlist threads that arc with dark-ambient atmosphere, cinematic spaciousness, and carefully placed lyrics about doubt, distance, and longing—so the mood can follow the book from contemplation to emotional rupture and back again.

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Track List

17 songs

1

Im Rauch

Bohren & Der Club Of Gore · Piano Nights

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2

The Evil That Never Arrived

Stars Of The Lid · And Their Refinement of the Decline

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3

Two Thousand and Seventeen

Four Tet · New Energy

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4

Felt (feat. Henry Green)

Christian Löffler · A Life

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5

sleep

wiv · sleep

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6

Koyaanisqatsi - Pruitt Igoe (Arranged by James McVinnie)

Philip Glass · Philip Glass: The Grid

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7

Eternal Return

Funeral Lakes · Golden Season

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8

No Surprises

Sweet Little Band · Radiohead Para Bebes

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9

Fade Into You

Mazzy Star · So Tonight That I Might See

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10

Serpents

Sharon Van Etten · Tramp

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11

Crystalised

The xx · xx

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12

anything

Adrianne Lenker · songs

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13

Cruel

St. Vincent · Strange Mercy

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14

When I Grow Up

Fever Ray · Nordic Lights

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15

Enjoy The Silence

Depeche Mode · Honor Your Thoughts

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16

I Need My Girl

The Cat and Owl · Lullaby Versions of The National

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17

Too Many Monsters in My Closet

Luminary Flux · Too Many Monsters in My Closet

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