I’m glad that I hit the entirely arbitrary 150 mark on my 2025 playlist before the end of the month, so I can share what my particular “Songs of the Summer” have been before the season falls into the bin underneath our big cosmic desk. For those that might not remember, every year I make a Spotify playlist of songs that are either new to me or that I’ve become newly obsessed with if I had heard them before, and I share them here in batches of 50 songs at a time; here are the first two entries of this year’s list. (Why 50? There is no method to my madness.)
Want to know what much of my June, July and August sounded like? Take a look.




