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Warm & Cozy ✨ - A Folk/Acoustic/Chill Playlist

autmopshere

Solace

indie

Imagine yourself in an empty concert arena, make sure you listen with your headphones, and enjoy!

The Wanted - Heart Vacancy (Empty Arena)

All My Days

Fleet Foxes

White Winter Hymnal

Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal

"My Silver Lining" from "Stay Gold," the new album from First Aid Kit, available June 10th. 

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My Silver Lining

I don't want to wait anymore I'm tired of looking for answers
Take me some place where there's music and there's laughter
I don't know if I'm scared of dying but I'm scared of living too fast, too slow
Regret, remorse, hold on, oh no I've got to go
There’s no starting over, no new beginnings, time races on
And you've just gotta keep on keeping on
Gotta keep on going, looking straight out on the road
Can't worry 'bout what's behind you or what's coming for you further up the road
I try not to hold on to what is gone, I try to do right what is wrong
I try to keep on keeping on
Yeah I just keep on keeping on

I hear a voice calling
Calling out for me
These shackles I've made in an attempt to be free
Be it for reason, be it for love
I won't take the easy road

I've woken up in a hotel room, my worries as big as the moon
Having no idea who or what or where I am
Something good comes with the bad
A song's never just sad
There's hope, there's a silver lining 
Show me my silver lining
Show me my silver lining

I hear a voice calling
Calling out for me
These shackles I've made in an attempt to be free
Be it for reason, be it for love
I won't take the easy road

I won't take the easy road
The easy road, the easy road

Show me my silver lining, I try to keep on keeping on
Show me my silver lining, I try to keep on keeping on
Show me my silver lining, I try to keep on keeping on
Show me my silver lining, I try to keep on keeping on


My Silver Lining

Flowers In Your Hair (demo)

'Even the Darkness Has Arms' takes its cues from the old "talking' blues" style of songwriting, but with a more personal subject . The lyrics are fast, the tempo is brisk, it stays light on its feet. If you ever woke up in a bed without somebody, and you didn't know the bed or the room or the city, this song might be for you.
 
CREDITS
Brad: lead vocals, guitars, piano
Andrew: percussion, ukulele, synthesizer
Sarah: guitar, vocals
Andrés: pump organ
Miles Perkin: contrabass
Richard Reed Parry: contrabass
Laurel Sprengelmeyer: vocals


The Barr Brothers - Even the Darkness Has Arms

Photographs

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Lyrics: 

See me as your enemy, or see me as your friend
It is 19 months since I was there, and held you in my hand
It is 18 since I told you, and you took away my name

Now when you saw me, you turned away your head
You won't forgive me, and I will understand
Now and then

Used to be your future, now you see me as your end
When you're hiding, we're colliding
Better be, and stop pretend
I was silent, you were blind
Better leave those fears behind

If you're still bleeding, see me as a friend
You won't believe me
And I will understand
Now and then
Now and then

You won't believe me
Won't be an end
I know you're done, ignored and gone, but I'm around
If you see light in fighting me, you'll be your enemy

And still today, you will not pretend
You won't believe me
And I will understand
Now and then

Now & Then

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“Riding on the wave of a successful single release, with support from Too Future, Run The Trap, IndieFeed, and us here at EarMilk, west coast singer-songwriter Chase McBride releases his new full-length album, “Cold Water”. The collection of eight songs, written during a transitional creative period, reveal a fresh, more distilled version of McBride’s previous folk sound.” - EarMilk

'Cold Water' Out Now
Spotify: spoti.fi/2iYQAlS
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YouTube: bit.ly/YouTubeColdWater

The oldest of the three
You said that the first time you spoke to me
You always had to lead
You seem to have everything you need

The days, they move easy
The waves, they don't mean as much to me as I used to believe
The days, they move easy
It occurs, when you are here the waves they wash away from me

To be honest
I could see
It in your eyes
When you kissed me tangerine
If all this
Is a dream
I wouldn't mind us
Drifting to sleep

The days, they move easy
The waves, they don't mean as much to me as I used to believe
The days, they move easy
It occurs, when you are here the waves they wash away from me

Cold Water

Days Move Easy

Song from Joel's debut full-length album THE NATURE OF US.
Hear more: https://open.spotify.com/artist/49IjdVEbQcukWy36sdRMzl?si=N8eI6aB1QAuCgEQMFfEkYg

LYRICS:
Hearts like leaves they float along
Where oh where do they belong
Hearts like leaves they float around
Will they ever find the ground?

Tired of winds that change my ways
Won't you give our hearts some weight
Won't you give our hearts some weight
So we fall in the right places

Hearts like leaves they're to and fro
Hard to know where they will go
Aren't you tired of floating on
Floating til your time is gone

Tired of winds that change my ways
Won't you give our hearts some weight
Won't you give our hearts some weight
So we fall in the right places

When the winds have changed my ways
Won't you give our hearts some weight
Won't you give our hearts some weight
So we fall in the right places

CREDITS:
Joel Ansett: Vocals, Acoustic Guitars, Recorder, Piano, Backing Vocals (composed by Jordan Mart & Julie Kucks) 
Ryan Doyle: Drums 
Joel Beussink: Bass Guitar 
Chase Weber: Slide Guitar, Synths, Percussion 
Brandon Weaver: Programming

Song by Joel Ansett
Produced by Brandon Weaver
Co-Produced by Chase Weber
Recorded at Iron Wing Studios (Newport, KY) and The Bongo Tree (Cincinnati, OH) 
Mixed by Brandon Weaver
Mastered by Alex Lowe at Red Tuxedo (Atlanta, GA)
Album Art & Photography by Zack Wilson

The Nature of Us

Stream

Give Our Hearts Some Weight

MaJLo - Worry

The first single from ‚Over The Woods’ album.
https://open.spotify.com/album/77v43OEmXslTsE0aYCPZcc?si=1K1POlshRU2m3_svbzqEBg

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MaJLo - Worry

Juneau is the debut album from Utah-based band Michael Barrow & the Tourists, and is the first release on alexrainbirdRecords.

iTunes: http://hyperurl.co/MichaelBarrowAndTT
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3kQ6Dn09jLraFhU8DKYp73

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Michael Barrow & the Tourists - The Reason

Millennium

Backstreet Boys - Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely (Original)

Listen to "Grow As We Go" off the upcoming album, "Sing To Me Instead" available on 3.29 
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Grow As We Go

Twenty Four

Perfect Once

10,000 Hours (with Justin Bieber)

You were the brightest star
On the clearest of nights
You told me I had better hold on tight
And from the moment that we kissed
Forgot that it could feel like this
That I could ever feel so high
Because I'd never been so high

Because I like your kind of crazy
So much the words sometimes escape me
Your colors and your sounds
The air when you're around
Baby I like your kind of crazy

Guess I'm addicted to your peaks and your valleys
They way I feel when you're around me
If this is crazy then I'm insane
And I'll never be the same
'Cause I've never been so high


Because I like your kind of crazy
So much the words sometimes escape me
Your colors and your sounds
The air when you're around
Baby I like your kind of crazy


Because I like your kind of crazy
So much the words sometimes escape me
Your colors and your sounds
The air when you're around
I like your kind of crazy

Your Kind Of Crazy

I Won’t Know (Until The End)

Talking to Myself (Stripped)

R: 10.28.20

Performed by: Gatlin 
Writers: Gatlin Thornton, Michelle Buzz
Producer: Josh Warren

Talking to Myself (Stripped)

Official Website: www.hunterhayes.com
Buy Wanted on iTunes: http://atlr.ec/11UxRft

Hunter Hayes - Wanted

The January Lanterns is an indie-folk-pop duo created by husband-and-wife team Andrew and Kristen Camp. The high school sweethearts have navigated life’s highs and lows together and their music is a raw and heartfelt expression of their journey. With bittersweet harmonies and poignant lyrics, they craft a sound that blends warm folk melodies with pop-infused production, creating something deeply intimate yet expansive.

Based in Missouri, The January Lanterns’ music speaks to anyone who’s lived through love, loss, and the complex beauty of personal growth. Their second album, That’s What We’ll Be, released in May 2025, follows their debut LP, For The Kids, When They’re Older (2022), and several singles that paved the way for their evolving sound. That’s What We’ll Be offers a collection of stories about vulnerability, transformation, and embracing life’s uncertainties. 

The duo’s single, “the kid that wrecked it all” was named in the top 12 songs at the 2024 Telluride Troubadour Songwriting Competition and The January Lanterns are also active in licensing their music for sync. Warner Chappell Production Music commissioned Andrew and Kristen to write a six song EP for their sync catalog. Since then those songs have been licensed in numerous TV shows around the world.

Their music is a comforting embrace—a glowing light in the darkness of life's challenges—offering stories of vulnerability, hope, and transformation. Two lanterns, burning bright in the night sky.