Gravity's Rainbow
Book Playlist

Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

This playlist captures the complex, dense, and often surreal atmosphere of Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow," blending electronic and ambient instrumentals with eclectic vocal tracks. The instrumentals reflect the novel's blend of wartime tension, scientific inquiry, and cosmic mystery, while the vocal tracks evoke its characters' fragmented psyches and the chaotic post-war world.

21 tracks
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Aug 7, 2026
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21 songs
1
Music for Nine Post Cards

Clouds

Hiroshi Yoshimura · Music for Nine Post Cards

2
A Real Hero EP

A Real Hero

College · A Real Hero EP

3
async

disintegration

Ryuichi Sakamoto · async

4
Endless Falls

Endless Falls

Loscil · Endless Falls

5
Holy Ground: NYC Live with the Wordless Music Orchestra

Silent Flight, Sleeping Dawn

MONO · Holy Ground: NYC Live with the Wordless Music Orchestra

6
Glass: Solo Piano Music

Glassworks, Opening No. 1

Philip Glass · Glass: Solo Piano Music

7
Substrata + Man with a Movie Camera

Chukhung

Biosphere · Substrata + Man with a Movie Camera

8
Ambient & Downtempo by RE:VERSAL

Emerald and Stone

Brian Eno · Ambient & Downtempo by RE:VERSAL

9
Waves

Waves

Dimitris Nikolopoulos · Waves

10
A Passage in Time

The Host of Seraphim

Dead Can Dance · A Passage in Time

11
Best Of The Other Sides

Rocket Man

Kate Bush · Best Of The Other Sides

12
Gore

Doomed User

Deftones · Gore

13
Blonde

White Ferrari

Frank Ocean · Blonde

14
Cooking At Home - Dance Edition

Roads

Portishead · Cooking At Home - Dance Edition

15
Langt fyrir utan ystu skóga

Venus as a Boy

Ásgerður Júníusdóttir · Langt fyrir utan ystu skóga

16
Cooking & Drinking

Eve Of Destruction

Barry McGuire · Cooking & Drinking

17
The Very Best Of The Pointer Sisters & The Weather Girls

Automatic

The Pointer Sisters · The Very Best Of The Pointer Sisters & The Weather Girls

18
A Walk Across the Rooftops

Tinseltown in the Rain

The Blue Nile · A Walk Across the Rooftops

19
Non-Stop Pop Vol 3

The Rip

Portishead · Non-Stop Pop Vol 3

20
Pop Rock Classics

Once In a Lifetime

Talking Heads · Pop Rock Classics

21
Too Many Monsters in My Closet

Too Many Monsters in My Closet

Luminary Flux · Too Many Monsters in My Closet

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