I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

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I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream Playlist

by Harlan Ellison

18 tracks

balanced

May 6, 2026

This playlist captures the bleak, dystopian atmosphere and intense psychological torment in "I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream." The instrumental tracks provide eerie, futuristic soundscapes and haunting ambient moments reflecting the AI's cold dominion and the survivors' isolation, while the vocal tracks explore themes of despair, resistance, and human fragility, mirroring the characters' emotional arcs and the story's speculative, post-apocalyptic setting.

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Track List

18 songs

1

The Legend Begins

Audiomachine · Tree of Life

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2

Darkstalker

Bohren & Der Club Of Gore · Sunset Mission

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3

I Miss The Way You Swim

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith · I Miss The Way You Swim

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4

Displacement

Rafael Anton Irisarri · A Fragile Geography

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5

We Can Make The World Stop

The Glitch Mob · We Can Make the World Stop - EP

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6

Fragment II

Library Tapes · Fragment

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7

Pockets of Light - Excerpt

Lubomyr Melnyk · Erased Tapes Collection VI

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8

Silent Flight

Walking Ice · Walking Ice

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9

Plastic Heart

Nostalghia · John Wick: Chapter 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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10

Death Is the Road to Awe (feat. Kronos Quartet)

Clint Mansell · The Fountain OST

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11

Control - Live Version

Mutemath · Mutemath (U.S. Version)

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12

Disintegration

Razed In Black · 100 Tears: A Tribute To The Cure

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13

The Sound of Settling

Vitamin String Quartet · VSQ Performs Death Cab for Cutie: Ghost

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14

On / Off

Daft Punk · Human After All

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15

The Great Escape

Woodkid · The Golden Age

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16

Lazaretto

Jack White · Lazaretto

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17

Mystery of Love

Sufjan Stevens · Mystery of Love

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18

Spell She Cast

Luminary Flux · Spell She Cast

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