Almost Familiar

Same desk orbit as the recent work mixes, but walking around the no-brainers, younger album cuts, approachable jazz, Parachutes-era Coldplay, and a few 90s indie additions.

Context: long varied work / office listening; orbits familiar desk-mix energy with less-obvious album cuts; jazz approachable; indie younger albums; includes Pavement, Ben Folds Five, Preston School of Industry.

1. Miles Davis - All Blues
2. Iron & Wine - Upward Over the Mountain
3. Stan Getz - Night and Day
4. Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood
5. Bill Evans - Some Other Time
6. The Shins - Saint Simon (Chutes Too Narrow (20th Anniversary Remaster)), 2023 Remaster
7. Antônio Carlos Jobim - Dindi
8. Elliott Smith - Ballad of Big Nothing
9. Chet Baker - But Not For Me
10. Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
11. Khruangbin - People Everywhere (Still Alive)
12. Wilco - Handshake Drugs
13. Norah Jones - Sunrise
14. Radiohead - (Nice Dream)
15. João Gilberto - Insensatez
16. Bon Iver - Flume
17. Herbie Hancock - Dolphin Dance
18. José González - Lovestain
19. The National - Apartment Story
20. Astrud Gilberto - Dindi
21. Nick Drake - Place to Be
22. Tame Impala - Desire Be Desire Go
23. Dave Brubeck - Strange Meadow Lark
24. Simon & Garfunkel - Kathy's Song
25. John Coltrane - Central Park West
26. Andrew Bird - Measuring Cups
27. The Beatles - Dear Prudence (The Beatles (Remastered)), Remastered 2009
28. Caetano Veloso - Cucurrucucu Paloma (Fina Estampa Ao Vivo), Ao Vivo
29. Paul Simon - The Boy in the Bubble
30. Joni Mitchell - Carey
31. BadBadNotGood - Confessions Pt. II
32. Angelo De Augustine - Time
33. Steely Dan - Babylon Sisters
34. Beirut - Elephant Gun
35. Fiona Apple - Shadowboxer
36. Charlie Byrd - O Barquinho
37. Grizzly Bear - Ready, Able
38. Carole King - Home Again
39. Thelonious Monk - Well You Needn't
40. Counting Crows - Anna Begins
41. Gilberto Gil - Andar com Fé
42. Cat Stevens - Into White
43. R.E.M. - Find the River
44. Coldplay - Spies
45. Beck - Jack-Ass
46. Ella Fitzgerald - Cheek to Cheek
47. Devendra Banhart - At the Hop
48. Van Morrison - And It Stoned Me
49. Sarah McLachlan - Sweet Surrender
50. Geese - Cowboy Nudes
51. Tracy Chapman - Crossroads
52. Charles Mingus - Better Git It in Your Soul
53. Cameron Winter - Try as I May
54. The Wallflowers - Three Marlenas
55. Bright Eyes - Bowl of Oranges
56. Pavement - In the Mouth a Desert
57. Bob Dylan - Shelter from the Storm
58. Ben Folds Five - Philosophy (Ben Folds Five (Remastered)), 2026 Remaster
59. Preston School of Industry - Falling Away
60. Coldplay - High Speed