Solace House

Book Playlist

Solace House Playlist

by Will Maclean

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 16, 2026

A shifting soundtrack for summer 1993: intimate piano, shadowy chamber music, and spacious instrumentals accompany the slow unsealing of Solace House and Edwin Flayne’s journals. The vocal half moves from curiosity and youthful closeness toward obsession, division, and the unnerving pull of forbidden knowledge.

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Track List

20 songs

1

The Big Ship

Brian Eno · Eno Piano 2

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2

Music for Airports, 1/1 - Radio Mix

Brian Eno · Music for Airports, 1/1 (Radio Mix)

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3

Untitled #3 - Samskeyti

Sigur Rós · ( )

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4

Untitled #4 - Njósnavélin

Sigur Rós · ( )

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5

String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: I. Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo

Ludwig van Beethoven · Beethoven:The String Quartets

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6

The Gravel Road (from "The Village")

James Newton Howard · Imitation Games Vol.4

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7

White Rabbit

Jefferson Airplane · Surrealistic Pillow

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8

Under the Milky Way

The Church · Starfish

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9

Everyday Is Like Sunday

Morrissey · The Best of Morrissey - Suedehead

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10

Who Knows Where The Time Goes

Fairport Convention · The Airing Cupboard Tapes

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11

Riders on the Storm

The Doors · Forever Changing: The Golden Age Of Elektra Records 1963-1973

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12

Somebody's Watching Me

Rockwell · Somebody's Watching Me

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13

The Killing Moon

Echo & the Bunnymen · Ocean Rain (Expanded; 2007 Remaster)

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14

House of the Rising Sun

The Animals · The Complete Animals

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15

Mother - Remastered 2010

John Lennon · Plastic Ono Band

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16

The End

The Doors · The Doors

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17

The Bewlay Brothers - 2015 Remaster

David Bowie · Hunky Dory (2015 Remaster)

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18

A Whiter Shade of Pale

Procol Harum · Retro Rock

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19

The Ghost In You

The Psychedelic Furs · Mirror Moves

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20

Spellbound

Siouxsie and the Banshees · Juju

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