Foe
Book Playlist

Foe Playlist

by Iain Reid

20 tracks
balanced
Nov 5, 2026
2 mixes for this book

The instrumental opening pairs spare, uneasy electronics with sounds that suggest a damaged landscape and a home slowly becoming unfamiliar. The vocal half follows the book’s emotional pressure points: separation, surveillance, doubt about the self, and the fragile pull of intimacy between Junior and Henrietta.

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Track List

20 songs
1

Lipstick To Void

Mica Levi · Under the Skin

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2

The Door

Hildur Guðnadóttir · Chernobyl (Music from the Original TV Series)

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3

Naive Response

Daniel Avery · Drone Logic

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4

Persona

Rival Consoles · Persona

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5

Being Here

Laraaji · Flow Goes The Universe

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6

The How of it Sped

Bing & Ruth · No Home of the Mind

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7

The Garden Of Brokenness

William Basinski · The Garden Of Brokenness

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8

The Host of Seraphim

Dead Can Dance · A Passage in Time

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9

How to Disappear Completely

Radiohead · Kid A

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10

Everything In Its Right Place

Radiohead · Kid A

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11

Teardrop

Massive Attack · Mezzanine

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12

The Day Before You Came

ABBA · The Visitors (Deluxe Edition)

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13

I'm Deranged - 2021 Remaster

David Bowie · 1. Outside (The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle) [2021 Remaster]

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14

Human Behaviour

Björk · Debut

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15

The Great Below

Nine Inch Nails · The Fragile

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16

Roads

Portishead · Dummy

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17

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Gordon Lightfoot · Summertime Dream

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18

cellophane

FKA twigs · MAGDALENE

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19

River

Oliver Coates · The History Of Sound (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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20

Hand Covers Bruise

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross · The Social Network

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Mood balanced
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Length medium
Instrumental request 50%
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