This Inevitable Ruin

Book Playlist

This Inevitable Ruin Playlist

by Matt Dinniman

12 tracks

balanced

Sep 8, 2026

4 mixes for this book

“This Inevitable Ruin” balances wonder and collapse—progress under pressure, bonds in a widening catastrophe, and the strange comfort of small choices inside huge systems. This playlist stays warm and close like cozy indoor reading, while using sci-fi-leaning indie and synth-tinged alt-pop to echo fate, momentum, and the slow rebuilding of meaning.

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Track List

12 songs

1

White Winter Hymnal

Fleet Foxes · Fleet Foxes

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2

Only Love Can Break Your Heart

Natalie Imbruglia · Male

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3

Ain't No Sunshine

Bill Withers · Just As I Am

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4

The Fear of God

Convictions · The Fear of God

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5

This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)

Talking Heads · Speaking in Tongues

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6

Dreamer

Low Roar · 0

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7

Time to Pretend

MGMT · Oracular Spectacular

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8

Call It Dreaming

Iron & Wine · Beast Epic

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9

Holocene

Bon Iver · Bon Iver, Bon Iver

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10

The House of the Rising Sun

The Animals · The House of the Rising Sun: Best of The Animals

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11

Electric Love

BØRNS · Dopamine

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12

Luminary

Joel Sunny · Luminary

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