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With warmer—and longer—days finally here, our new playlist (aka our Spring Mixtape) has arrived to soundtrack all your pre-summer shenanigans.
As always, this quarterly playlist is culled from a combination of readers' favorites, staff selections and music from artists recently featured by Variance. It's a healthy blend of more than three hours of the newest or most buzzworthy indie, underground and mainstream music we currently love. And we guarantee you'll discover something new—or your money back!
The playlist, which can be heard below via Spotify, features new music from Jamie xx, Action Bronson, Tame Impala, Brandon Flowers, Lianne La Havas, ON AN ON, Big Data, M83, HAIM, Leon Bridges, What So Not, George Maple, Emile Haynie, Lola Marsh, A$AP Rocky, Florence + the Machine, MS MR, Ryn Weaver, Little Comets, Tove Styrke, Vic Mensa, Jon Bellion, Erik Hassle, X Ambassadors, Madeon, Geographer, Best Coast, COIN, Rihanna and more.
Listen to the full set below (followed by the tracklist for reference). Be sure to follow the playlist on Spotify, as we tend to add new music.
Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta
Jamie xx - Loud Places (ft. Romy)
Hudson Mohawke - Very First Breath
Madeon - Home
Brandon Flowers - Can’t Deny My Love
Great Good Fine Ok - Something to Believe In (ft. St. Lucia)
Tame Impala - Let It Happen
HÆLOS - Earth Not Above
Best Coast - Heaven Sent
Mumford & Sons - Believe
Tanlines - Slipping Away
Action Bronson - Baby Blue (ft. Chance the Rapper)
M83 - Holes in the Sky (ft. HAIM)
VÉRITÉ - Wasteland
ON AN ON - Drifting
COIN - Run
Leon Bridges - Better Man
Big Data - The Business of Emotion (ft. White Sea)
FMLYBND - Air
Aurora - Runaway
Made in Heights - Panther
Tove Styrke - Borderline (Vanic Remix)
X Ambassadors - Renegades
Paperwhite - Magic
COMPNY - Lovers
Seinabo Sey - Hard Time
Charlotte OC - On and On
What So Not - Gemini (ft. George Maple)
Gallant - Open Up
Rihanna - American Oxygen
Tei Shi - Go Slow
Mt. Wolf - Hamburg
Geographer - I’m Ready
Erik Hassle - No Words
Jon Bellion - All Time Low
Best Coast - Feeling OK
Vic Mensa - U Mad (ft. Kanye West)
Ryn Weaver - The Fool
A$AP Rocky - M’$
Florence + the Machine - Ship to Wreck
MS MR - Painted
Lola Marsh - Sirens
Carly Rae Jepsen - I Really Like You
Little Comets - My Boy William
Yumi Zouma - Catastrophe
Civil Twilight - Story of an Immigrant
The Wombats - Greek Tragedy
Maudlin Strangers - Overdose
Emile Haynie - Falling Apart (ft. Andrew Wyatt & Brian Wilson)
Janelle Monáe & Jidenna - Yoga
Lianne La Havas - Unstoppable
Penguin Prison - Show Me the Way
Years & Years - Shine