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We Have Always Lived in the Castle Playlist
20 tracks
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Oct 29, 2026
A largely instrumental path moves from the Blackwood house’s guarded stillness through village menace and the pressure of Charles’s arrival, with spare chamber music, unsettling contemporary classical textures, and restrained ambient pieces. The three vocal songs add pointed echoes of Merricat’s witchlike self-image, the village’s hostility, and the sisters’ close, insular bond.
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20 songs
1
Für Alina
Arvo Pärt · Arvo Pärt: Alina
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2
The Protecting Veil: I. The Protecting Veil
John Tavener · The Protecting Veil & Wake Up...and Die (Remastered)
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Musica ricercata II. Mesto, rigido e cerimoniale
György Ligeti · Ligeti: Piano & Harpsichord Works
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November
Max Richter · Memoryhouse
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The Sun's Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black
Jóhann Jóhannsson · The Sun's Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black
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Sections 1-16
Simeon ten Holt · Canto Ostinato
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A New Error
Moderat · Moderat
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The Great Below
Nine Inch Nails · The Fragile
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dlp 2.1
William Basinski · The Disintegration Loops (Remastered)
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10
The House of the Rising Sun
Nina Simone · Nina Simone Sings The Blues (Expanded Edition)
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11
Sisters of Mercy
Leonard Cohen · Songs Of Leonard Cohen
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12
The Witch
The Sonics · Here Are the Sonics
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13
I Am A Ghost
Andrew Hewitt · The Double (Original Soundtrack Album)
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You're Not Meant To Be Here
Andrew Hewitt · The Double (Original Soundtrack Album)
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15
Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Arvo Pärt · Arvo Pärt: Credo
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16
Rain Tree Sketch II
Toru Takemitsu · Takemitsu: Complete Works for Piano
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Four Sea Interludes, Op. 33a: IV. Storm
Benjamin Britten · Britten: Orchestral Works
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Musica ricercata: VII. Cantabile, molto legato
György Ligeti · Ligeti: Piano & Harpsichord Works
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String Quartet No. 3 "Leaves of an Unwritten Diary"
Krzysztof Penderecki · Ãtma Quartet
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