A Sun That’s Too Hot To Go Down- A Summer Playlist

Photo by Boris Karn!!

Okay, So, I didn’t think I would be looking forward to summer at all since I haven’t experienced winter in over a year and a half, but spring here is fricken cold enough! And now that summer is approaching it is time for a summer playlist. Now, most of these songs are songs I have listened to (on repeat) in past summers, the kind of songs where the second you hear the first note, or the first strum of the guitar, you can LITERALLY feel the heat…orrrr, if you listen to these particular songs in the middle of winter, its just damn depressing. Some of the songs are recently released, put out a month before summer for the sole purpose of being on my summer playlist! enjoy!

Stars- What The Snowman Learned About Love

Although the name does not sound the least bit summer-ish, I think it’s written to summer, itself. This is the kind of summer song you listen to at 5a.m, when you’ve been up all night, only because its summer, and you can do that, and at 5 a.m it’s still warm, and everything is silent, and everything is perfect. It was also one summer month a long, long time ago when I first heard the amazing album “Nightsongs”, and it was then that I fell in love with everything Stars had to offer, and then that they slowly became my most played artist.

Sterephonics- Don’t Let Me Down (cover)

Driving to my cabin on my own, this song goes on the second I hit highway 3, with the winding roads, the cows, the windmills, it fits better than anything. I almost feel like this song was written driving down a winding road, with the sun beating through the roof of an old volkswagen jetta.

The Constantines- Soon Enough

This is another sort of winding road, driving song (maybe it’s just the very similar voice between the two vocalists Bry Webb and Kelly Jones). But it’s also a walking down to kensington, or having a beer with your dad kind of song.

Portastatic- I Wanna Know Girls

Thom Stone- She Knows

Peter Bjorn & John- Teen Love

The French Kicks- Wrong Side

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson- Buriedfed

All of these are just, driving fast songs. Or songs for my favourite summer days spent with my favourite people.

Woodpigeon- Home As A Romanticized Concept Where Everyone Loves You Always & Forever

With summer, comes Sled Island

Coldplay- Strawberry Swing

Happy, happy, happy, green grass, blue skies, white clouds, happy, happy, happy. After a lot of listens to Viva La Vida, this is my favourite, 100%.

Peter And The Wolf- The Fall

All of Peter and the Wolf in incredible summer music. This song is another perfect 5 a.m song. I spent a lot of last summer climbing out my bedroom window and sitting on my roof, listening to this. The harmony of the voices is so incredibly serene.

My Morning Jacket- Golden

Another wining road song. This seems to be perfect for Alberta. It reminds me of wheat and horses and cowboys.

My Morning Jacket- Wordless Chorus

Late Night. It also holds one of my all time favourite lyrics, “Tell me spirit, what has not been done? I’ll rush out and do it, or are we doing it now?”. It’s actually quite a thought provoking song, which, I guess, is why I end up playing it all the time when I decide sleeping isn’t a very good idea.

Bob Dylan- Mr. Tambourine

I guess this could be put under ‘winding road’ music, but Bob Dylan is the ultimate summer music. Well, really, he’s just the ultimate music. But I’ve never made a summer playlist that didn’t consist of any Bob D.

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