Office Listening — August 2023 Spotify Playlist

Soundfly’s “Office Listening” is our monthly playlist on Spotify that includes selections from what the team at Soundfly HQ is listening to and enjoying, as well as newly released tracks from the Soundfly subscriber community, music from our online course instructors and mentors, and listening recommendations culled from our Discord.

This month, we’re featuring a Soundfly student who just launched their new, spectacular, EP, Courtney Nord, among other community members like Axo, Isla Vidal, PatternShift, and SAYANA. Plus, for some reason there have been a bevy of “super groups” lately, like Dinner Party (Kamasi Washington, Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, and 9th Wonder), boygenius (Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus), Natural Wonder Beauty Concept (DJ Python and Ana Roxanne), and dope collabs like Thundercat & Tame Impala and Kimbra & Ryan Lott. Lastly, as always, we added a bunch of new finds courtesy of the Soundfly Discord.

On the cover: Courtney Nord

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Office Listening — August 2023 playlist

  1. Courtney Nord – “Like Rainbows”
  2. Isla Vidal – “Melodías”
  3. LORD JAH-MONTE OGBON – “EIGHT PREGNANCY SCARES”
  4. The Alchemist – “Midnight Oil” (feat. Larry June & Jay Worthy)
  5. Little Dragon – “Slugs of Love”
  6. Dua Lipa – “Dance The Night” (from Barbie)
  7. Dinner Party – “Answered Prayer” (feat. Phoelix)
  8. GoGo Penguin – “Everything Is Going to Be OK”
  9. mohs. – “Mirage”
  10. SAYANA – “Salty Water”
  11. Natural Beauty Wonder Concept – “Driving”
  12. Four Tet – “Three Drums”
  13. PatternShift – “Backdoor”
  14. Bryan Senti – “Mitclan” (Ian Chang Remix)
  15. Cedric Noel – “But Can You Dance in Water”
  16. Elijah Fox – “Beaulieu-sur-Mer”
  17. Thundercat & Tame Impala – “No More Lies”
  18. Natalie Layne – “Love Me Back to Life”
  19. Kimbra – “i don’t want to fight”
  20. boygenius – “Satanist”
  21. Film School – “All I’ll Ever Be”
  22. Axo – “Trebol”
  23. Fun Boy Three – “The Pressure of Life”
  24. FRIDAY* – “Dying in the City”
  25. Courtney Nord – “Born Upon a Bribe”

Happy listening! Hope you’ve discovered something new, and see you all next month.

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