82 mixes taggedwistful

15 tracks from the likes of The Books, Max Richter and Portico Quartet

When you're wide open and you ache in your bones and you're so empty but the world keeps rushing in. Eight songs by Joe Pug, Dane Terry, Red Sails, etc.

You are walking down cobblestone streets. It is dusk and somehow the world is filled with a sort of longing you can't place, and have only found in old folk songs and new romance. You turn a corner and see a street busker playing his guitar and singing for his antique city. The songs he is singing make up this playlist, but it up to you to wander your own cobblestones. Featuring The Head and the Heart, Glen Hansard, Bob Dylan and Beirut.

22 tracks. No prisoners. Artists include The Black Keys, The Naked and Famous, and The Joy Formidable.

28 tracks for one of those days that you don't know what is making you feel the way you are.

Twenty-one tracks for the chronically nostalgic, including music by Seabear, Au Revoir Simone, and Bon Iver.

...try not to forget, even when I'm gone...

Moody and brooding, this is perhaps what Sylvia Plath might listen to if iPods were invented earlier. Featuring The Smiths, Bright Eyes, and the Margot & the Nuclear So and So's.

Soundtrack to the Wicklow Mountains, the Aran Islands, or the cliffs of Howth village.

wistfully wishing that we could be together with music by Noah & the Whale, Ra Ra Riot and Best Coast.

Dedicated to love lost, pined for, and swooned over, these songs are what Keats would have listened to had he not lived in the 19th century. Featuring Lydia, Stars, The Smiths and more...