Yesteryear

Book Playlist

Yesteryear Playlist

by Caro Claire Burke

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 17, 2026

5 mixes for this book

A shifting soundtrack for Natalie’s carefully staged ranch-life persona: open, pastoral textures give way to uneasy electronics and stark tension as the gap between the image and the reality comes into view. The songs trace the pull of domestic tradition, the labor of performing perfection, and the thriller’s destabilizing sense that the life she presents may not be the life she inhabits.

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Track List

20 songs

1

The Door

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

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2

Promise (Reprise)

andrewa · Silent Hill

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3

Parallel Jalebi

Four Tet · Beautiful Rewind

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4

Untravel

Rival Consoles · Persona

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5

The World Is Our ___

This Will Destroy You · Young Mountain

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6

Poa Alpina

Biosphere · Substrata + Man with a Movie Camera

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7

Endless Falls

Loscil · Endless Falls

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8

The Beast

Jóhann Jóhannsson · Sicario (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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9

Merry Go 'Round

Kacey Musgraves · Same Trailer Different Park

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10

The House That Built Me

Miranda Lambert · Revolution

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11

If It Makes You Happy

Sheryl Crow · Sheryl Crow

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12

In Dreams

Sierra Ferrell · Long Time Coming

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13

Dead of Night

Orville Peck · Pony

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14

Fire

Waxahatchee · Saint Cloud

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15

Working for the Knife

Mitski · Laurel Hell

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16

I Know The End

Phoebe Bridgers · Punisher

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17

Goodbye Earl

The Chicks · Fly

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18

God's Gonna Cut You Down

Johnny Cash · American V: A Hundred Highways

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19

All Mirrors

Angel Olsen · All Mirrors

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20

The Curse

Josh Ritter · So Runs The World Away

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