Monday Mixes: Summer Spell

Summer is here once more, and to celebrate this season that everyone loves, here's a playlist you can listen to while relaxing and getting your drinks on by the beach with your buddies.

The sun was glaring from high up in the sky, the waves were crashing, and I was just sitting there, beer in hand, taking it all in. It’s funny because in the summer there’s always a certain euphoria that can only present itself in this season, and yet, soaking in all this, everything feels so still. Or at least you hope it was—just so you can keep it longer. But the day is young, and so are you, and in this season when everything’s in full bloom, it feels as if anything can happen. As Fitzgerald said in The Great Gatsby, there is a familiar conviction that life was beginning all over again with the summer.


From where I’m from, summer has just wrapped up, but in some other parts of the world, the heat is just beginning to peak. And whether you plan on spending your days by the beach, or by going on a cross-country road trip with your best buddies, make the trip even better with some good music to boot.

Turn the music up and let great bands like Seapony, The Drums, Carousel and Empire of the Sun—to name a few—take you away into the summer you so deserve. Who doesn’t love good music on a good summer day, anyway? I know I do. And if you do too, well, then this mix here is for you.

Summer Spell

1. Dancing On My Own (Robyn cover) by Carousel
2. Come On by Melted Toys
3. Sunrise Sunset by We Are Trees
4. Let's Go Surfing by The Drums
5. The Body by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
6. In Steps by Letting Up Despite Great Faults
7. Into The Sea by Seapony
8. Closer Than This by St. Lucia
9. Leaving by Pet Shop Boys
10. Take A Walk by Passion Pit
11. Pogo by Eternal Summers
12. I Love It by Icona Pop
13. Live the Nite Away (Tiedye remix) by DJ Kaos
14. We Are Waves by Beat! Beat! Beat!
15. Alive by Empire of the Sun
16. Every Chance We Get We Run by David Guetta & Alesso ft. Tegan & Sara

Listen here:

Summer Spell from whatfireshesaid on 8tracks Radio.

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This playlist was created by Nicole, the annoying fangirl behind What Fire, She Said, which incidentally, well, uhm, is me. A little about myself? I write stuff for a living, and I have a dog named Kip, after Kip Berman of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. I blog at http://thestillnessinmoving.blogspot.com/.