Saudade Shift

Desk hours with more water in the glass, bossa forward, soft jazz, younger indie, and a few shameless ’90s.

Context: long varied work / office listening; bossa-forward follow-up to Almost Familiar; guilty 90s pleasures; rotate fatigued favorites; no Coldplay.

1. João Gilberto - O Pato
2. Iron & Wine - Bird Stealing Bread
3. Stan Getz - Voce E Eu (Bossa Nova: Verve Jazz Masters 53: Stan Getz)
4. Fleet Foxes - Tiger Mountain Peasant Song
5. Bill Evans - Peri’s Scope
6. The Shins - Kissing the Lipless (Chutes Too Narrow (20th Anniversary Remaster)), 2023 Remaster
7. Antônio Carlos Jobim - Wave
8. Elliott Smith - Waltz #2 (XO)
9. Chet Baker - Let’s Get Lost
10. Elis Regina - Águas de Março
11. Khruangbin - August Twelve
12. Wilco - I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
13. Norah Jones - The Nearness of You
14. Radiohead - Bones
15. Astrud Gilberto - How Insensitive
16. Bon Iver - Lump Sum
17. Herbie Hancock - Speak Like a Child
18. José González - Stay Alive (Stay Alive (From The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty))
19. The National - Mistaken for Strangers
20. Luiz Bonfá - Manhã de Carnaval
21. Nick Drake - Road
22. Tame Impala - Lucidity
23. Dave Brubeck - Kathy’s Waltz
24. Simon & Garfunkel - April Come She Will
25. John Coltrane - Equinox
26. Andrew Bird - Sovay
27. The Beatles - Mother Nature's Son (The Beatles (Remastered)), Remastered 2009
28. Caetano Veloso - Baby
29. Paul Simon - Hearts and Bones
30. Joni Mitchell - River
31. Baden Powell - Berimbau
32. Angelo De Augustine - Haze
33. Steely Dan - Hey Nineteen
34. Beirut - Scenic World
35. Fiona Apple - Limp
36. Charlie Byrd - Jazz ’n’ Samba
37. Grizzly Bear - Knife
38. Carole King - Way Over Yonder
39. Thelonious Monk - Ruby, My Dear
40. Semisonic - Secret Smile
41. Gilberto Gil - Expresso 2222
42. Cat Stevens - Sitting
43. R.E.M. - Sweetness Follows
44. Third Eye Blind - Motorcycle Drive By
45. Beck - Deadweight
46. Ella Fitzgerald - Misty
47. Devendra Banhart - The Body Breaks
48. Van Morrison - Beside You
49. Paula Cole - I Don’t Want to Wait
50. Geese - 2122
51. Tracy Chapman - Mountains O’ Things
52. Charles Mingus - Fables of Faubus
53. Goo Goo Dolls - Name
54. The Wallflowers - Bleeders
55. Bright Eyes - We Are Nowhere and It’s Now
56. Shawn Mullins - Lullaby
57. Bob Dylan - Girl from the North Country
58. Fastball - Out of My Head
59. Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
60. Bebel Gilberto - So Nice (Summer Samba)