“Billy Summers” moves through disguise, pursuit, and intermittent flashes of tenderness—so this playlist alternates between tense, cinematic instrumental passages and lyric-driven songs that echo the book’s moral strain and late-night unease. The vocal tracks lean indie/folk noir and restrained alt-pop, while the instrumentals favor suspenseful, textural scoring that supports focused reading.
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20 songsLife In a Glasshouse
Radiohead · Amnesiac
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A Rush of Blood to the Head
Coldplay · A Rush of Blood to the Head
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Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Tears For Fears · Songs From The Big Chair
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The Killing Moon
Echo & the Bunnymen · Ocean Rain (Expanded; 2007 Remaster)
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Take Me To Church
Hozier · Hozier
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Somebody Told Me
The Killers · Hot Fuss
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Champagne for the Ghosts
Luminary Flux · Too Many Monsters in My Closet
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Teardrop
Massive Attack · Mezzanine
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Creep
Radiohead · Pablo Honey
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Stay With Me
Sam Smith · In The Lonely Hour
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Young And Beautiful
Lana Del Rey · Young And Beautiful
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The Night We Met
Lord Huron · Strange Trails
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Twin Peaks Theme
Angelo Badalamenti · Twin Peaks (Limited Event Series Soundtrack)
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Koyaanisqatsi
Philip Glass · Koyaanisqatsi
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Love Theme From "The Godfather"
Nino Rota · The Godfather (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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The Girl With The Flaxen Hair
Claude Debussy · The Most Relaxing Classical Music In The Universe
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Gonna Fly Now
Bill Conti · Auburn University Marching Band 2011-2012
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O Fortuna
Marc Benjamin · O Fortuna
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The Great Escape
Al Stillman · The Guns of Navarone - Music from World War II Films
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Same book, another mood