11 mixes taggedlate night melancholy

I don't know. Maybe it's just the warmth of summer that's luring me out, but there's been a lot of sleepless nights on the balcony recently. Here you go.

• Fifty songs. • Lovingly crafted for a friend. • An all-purpose cathartic tonic for your heart. • Influenced by Switchfoot, the Fray and Missy Higgins.

It's late night and you're drinking at a bar. A lot of emotions comes to mind. All through great songs, including Eric Clapton, Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone and others.

Late night, a pack of cigarettes, a bottle of JD, and these twelve tracks to fuel your melancholic brooding. Includes Feist, The National, and Phantogram.

For these late nights when you do not want to fall asleep. Seventeen tracks including Portico Quartet, Nils Petter Molvaer or Beady Belle.

Chill tracks to listen to at night, or early in the AM.

Ten tracks including music by Jono McCleery, Sade, and Jill Scott.

Sixteen tracks including music by Aaron Zigman, David Archuleta, and Disney.

These days my life, I feel it has no purpose
But late at night the feelings swim to the surface

'Cause on the surface the city lights shine
They're calling at me, come and find your kind

when your thoughts won't be still,
let these songs be your quiet.

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