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Q1 – 2024 Playlist

by Robert Hyma
written by Robert Hyma

Q1 2024 ended up being one of those playlists that can change any mood for the better. The first track is “This Time Around” by Beauty Queen, a vibing pulser that starts any drive or walk with cares and worries falling away. “Hush” by The Marías is that droning, feel-good club music that you reach for your best and bassiest headphones to listen to.

Thematically, some gems pad the middle of the playlist, including “She’s Too Good For You” by Audio Book Club and “Hater’s Anthem” by Infinity Song, reflective and critical pieces about pedestal-placed love interests and the rampaging hating ways of haters. Since the end of the playlist coincided with a busy finale to a college semester, a classic angst-ridden guitar ballad “Now I’m Ready to Win” by Tokyo Police Club became a foundational repeat track; all the better to amp up for exams and final projects with.

Rounding out Q1 were a few surprises. Justin Timberlake’s latest album, Everything I Thought It Would Be, is a fantastic listen, but the hard-hitting “Sanctified” ultimately made the cut in terms of replay-ability. The final surprise featured one of my favorite bands from the early 2000s, Shout Out Louds. Filled with nostalgia, “The Comeback – Revisited” is a softer iteration of their original hit song but with the echoing thoughtfulness that comes from experience and reflection. If nothing else, the last track asks what comes next after considering where it all started from.

What better way to think about the first 3 months of 2024 than with a new, shiny playlist to tote around?

Click on the Spotify banner below to give it a listen!

  1. “This Time Around” by Beauty Queen
  2. “Fumari” by Peach Tree Rascals
  3. “Hush” by The Marías
  4. “idwtgtbt” by the booyah! kids
  5. “I Gotta I Gotta” by flowerovlove
  6. “Open Up Wide” by Dizzy
  7. “Best Interests” by Carmanah
  8. “She’s Too Cool for You” by Audio Book Club
  9. “Tightrope” by bennytheghost
  10. “Switch” by Biig Piig
  11. “Karma Tattoo” by Jenny Mayhem
  12. “Paint Your Nails Blue” by Dirty Nice
  13. “Ready to Win” by Tokyo Police Club
  14. “Sanctified (feat. Tobe Nwigwe)” by Justin Timberlake, Tobe Nwigwe
  15. “The Comeback – Revisited” by Shout Out Louds

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Q1 – 2024 Playlist
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Q1 – 2023 Playlist

by Robert Hyma
written by Robert Hyma

My, my it’s the start of 2024 and this playlist is finally available for public viewing. I say that as though there was a smattering of requests to make them available, which is the fanfare that I imagine my playlists will one day come to be revered for.

My playlists are a bit like the past few SNL Seasons: you didn’t feel like watching at the time, but after catching a few sketches on YouTube, they are worth catching up on.

But beyond the hype, beyond the internet masses demanding to finally have access to last year’s playlists, here’s a roundup of Quarter One of 2023:

The Collection has slowly become one of those atmospheric bands that captures complex ideas in memorable tubes, which made sense to have them open the playlist and close it with songs that remember the good times in “Rose Colored Glasses” and “Love at the End of the World”. New releases from old favorites came out in droves over the first three months of the year (thanks in large part to Spotify acting as a dental office of sorts, sending out constant reminders of when a cleaning new EP is coming up). Filling out the playlist were thumpers like Half-Alive’s “Never Been Better” and “What’s Wrong”. Vulfpeck and Fitz and The Tantrums delivered must-have tracks, and Chappell Roan is becoming one of those starlit singer/songwriters that you cram into conversation for them to check out next.

Some new ear-ticklers rounded out the first quarter selection in Tove Styrke’s “Say My Name” and Amor Amor’s “Can I Go Away”. Add to the productivity playlist the reminiscing lyrics of Laura Jean’s “Too Much To Do” and the beginning of 2023 encapsulated feelings of get-up-and-get-going as well as we’ve-done-the-best-we-could

It’s a playlist of jams and good times to start the new year and is sure to have something for everyone. Give it a listen and leave a comment with what tracks you added to your mixes!

  1. “Rose Colored Glasses” by The Collection
  2. “Never Been Better” by Half-Alive, Orla Gartland
  3. “Dressed to Kill” by The Wombats
  4. “Too Much To Do” by Laura Jean
  5. “Them Jeans” by Joe Hertler & the Rainbow Seekers
  6. “New Guru” by Vulfpeck, Antwaun Stanley
  7. “crashing down – acoustic” by Arlie
  8. “Carry You Home” by Circa Waves
  9. “I Wanna Dance With You” by Royel Otis
  10. “What’s Wrong” by Half-Alive
  11. “Can I Go Away” by Amor Amor
  12. “Good Nights” by Fitz and The Tantrums
  13. “19 in a Week” by Nieve Ella
  14. “Two Tens” by Cordae, Anderson .Paak
  15. “Honey” by Samia
  16. “better” by dee holt
  17. “Gordan Ramsey” by Abhi the Nomad, Kato On The Track
  18. “Say My Name” by Tove Styrke
  19. “Vines to Make It All Worth It” by Runner
  20. “Love at the End of the World” by The Collection
Robert Hyma’s Quarter One 2023 Playlist
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