uplifting moods

to feel warmth:

• adoniran barbosa - adoniran barbosa (1974)
• adventure lucy - fanfare (1999)
• ana frango elétrico - little electric chicken heart (2019)
• animal collective - sung tongs (2004)
• björk - biophilia (2011)
• fishmans - long season (1996)
• florence + the machine - lungs (2009)
• japanese breakfast - jubilee (2021)
• joanna newsom - the milk-eyed mender (2004)
• minnie riperton - come to my garden (1970)
• novos baianos - acabou chorare (1972)
• raveena - lucid (2019)
• shugo tokumaru - exit (2007)
• tulipa ruiz - efêmera (2010)
• vashti bunyan - just another diamond day (1970)
• yukika - soul lady (2020)
• tom jobim - wave (1967)
• mort garson - mother's earth plantasia (1976)
• mid-air thief - gongjoon doduk (2015)

to feel caught up in a stormy, bright dream:

• alvvays - antisocialites (2017)
• alvvays - blue rev (2022)
• candy claws - two airships / exploder falls (2008)
• cocteau twins - heaven or las vegas (1990)
• charli xcx - true romance (2013)
• fishmans - kuchu camp (1996)
• hatchie - giving the world away (2022)
• kero kero bonito - time 'n' place (2018)
• mid-air thief - crumbling (2018)
• my bloody valentine - loveless (1991)
• tyler the creator - igor (2019)

to feel a lil playful and quirky:

• animal collective - strawberry jam (2007)
• arnaldo baptista - lóki? (1974)
• fever ray - plunge (2017)
• guerrila toss - what would the odd do? (2019)
• kate bush - the dreaming (1982)
• os mutantes - os mutantes (1968)
• os mutantes - mutantes (1969)
• os mutantes - a divina comédia ou ando meio desligado (1970)
• plus-tech squeeze box - cartooom! (2004)
• st. vincent - st. vincent (2014)
• tetê espíndola - pássaros na garganta (1982)
• the beatles - magical mystery tour (1967)
• yellow magic orchestra - solid state survivor (1979)

to feel like a snarky lil mf:

• charli xcx - sucker (2014)
• gwen stefani - love.angel.music.baby (2004)
• kate nash - made of bricks (2007)
• lily allen - alright, still (2006)
• marina - the family jewels (2010)
• panic! at the disco - a fever you can't sweat out (2005)

to feel like an ethereal synthpop princess:

• chvrches - the bones of what you believe (2013)
• chvrches - every open eye (2015)
• iamamiwhoami - blue (2014)
• silva - vista pro mar (2014)
• silva - claridão (2012)
• robyn - honey (2018)
• purity ring - another eternity (2015)

danceable moods

to feel nostalgic:

• justin bieber - my world 2.0 (2010)
• selena gomez & the scene - when the sun goes down (2011)
• lady gaga - born this way (2011)
• lady gaga - chromatica (2020)

happy dancing:

• capsule - fruits clipper (2006)
• carly rae jepsen - emotion (2015)
• f(x) - 4 walls (2015)
• kero kero bonito - bonito generation (2016)
• magdalena bay - mercurial world (2021)
• mø - no mythologies to follow (2014)
• perfume - triangle (2009)
• robyn - body talk (2010)
• shinee - 1 of 1 (2016)
• sir babygirl - crush on me (2019)
• wednesday campanella - superman (2017)
• annie - anniemal (2004)
• cyndi lauper - she's so unusual (1983)
• dua lipa - future nostalgia (2020)
• fernanda abreu - sla radical dance disco club (1990)
• kylie minogue - light years (2000)
• kylie minogue - fever (2001)
• madonna - madonna (1983)
• paramore - after laughter
• rita lee - rita lee (1980)
• tommy february6 - tommy airlines (2004)
• wonder girls - reboot (2015)

dancing but as if you're gone absolutely bonkers:

• aqua - aquarium (1997)
• björk - debut (1993)
• gang do eletro - gang do eletro (2013)
• helen love - love and glitter, hot days and music (2000)
• st. vincent - masseduction (2017)
• getúlio abelha - marmota (2021)
• kesha - animal (2010)
• sophie - product (2015)
• 100 gecs - 1000 gecs (2019)
• charli xcx - pop 2 (2017)
• charli xcx - charli(2019)
• charli xcx - how i'm feeling now (2020)
• dorian electra - flamboyant (2019)
• dorian electra - my agenda (2020)
• gfoty - gfotybucks (2017)
• nadia oh - colors (2011)
• gang do eletro - gang do eletro (2013)
• sparks - nº1 in heaven (1979)

dancing as if you're really hot and sexy:

• azealia banks - broke with expensive taste (2014)
• britney spears - blackout (2007)
• golfrapp - supernature (2005)
• slayyyter - slayyyyter (2019)
• jessie ware - what's your pleasure (2020)
• lizzo - cuz i love you (2019)
• kim petras - turn off the light (2019)
• kim petras - the summer i couldn't do better (2022)
• tove lo - lady wood (2016)
• tove lo - blue lips (2017)

dancing but you're latina (?):

• banda calypso - calypso vol. 1 (1999)
• banda ravelly - envolvendo você (2009)
• gaby amarantos - tecnoshow (2022)
• pabllo vittar - batidão tropical (2021)
• pabllo vittar - não para não (2018)

lowkey dancing:

• aphex twin - selected ambient works 85-92

mellon collie moods

to feel caught up in a soft, bittersweet dream:

• vashti bunyan - heartleap
• ichiko aoba - qp
• ichiko aoba - windswept adan (2020)
• weyes blood - and in the darkness, hearts aglow (2022)

to feel melancholic and warm:

• belle and sebastian - if you're feeling sinister
• cartola - cartola
• cícero - canções de apartamento
• daniel johnston - hi, how are you
• death cab for cutie - plans
• death cab for cutie - transatlanticism
• jake bugg - jake bugg (2012)
• joni mitchell - blue (1971)
• los hermanos - ventura
• lorde - melodrama
• soko - i thought i was an alien
• the smiths - the queen is dead
• snail mail - lush (2018)
• lily allen - no shame
• antony and the johnsons - i am a bird now
• belchior - alucinação (1976)
• joanna newsom - ys (2006)
• joanna newsom - divers (2015)
• silvana estrada - marchita (2022)
• sufjan stevens - seven swans (2004)
• weyes blood - titanic rising (2019)

to feel melancholic and cold:

• björk - vespertine
• kate bush - 50 words for snow (2011)
• múm - yesterday was dramatic, today is ok
• the cure - disintegration
• susanne sundfør - ten love songs

to feel melancholic yet sexy:

• fka twigs - lp1 (2014)
• banks - goddess (2014)
• kelela - take me apart (2017)

to feel severely depressed:

• björk - vulnicura
• london grammar - if you wait
• nicole dollanganger - natural born losers
• pj harvey - white chalk
• mitski - be the cowboy
• susanne sundfør - music for people in trouble
• fka twigs - magdalene
• sufjan stevens - carrie & lowell
• yellow swans - going places (2010)
• yeule - serotonin ii

to feel severely depressed AND suicidal:

• xiu xiu - a promise (2003)
• daughter - if you leave
• daughter - not to disappear
• yeule - glitch princess

to feel severely depressed AND suicidal AND angry:

• mitski - bury me at makeout creek
• mitski - puberty 2
• the smashing pumpkins - siamese twins
• the smashing pumpkins - mellon collie and the infinite sadness
• emilie autumn - opheliac

to feel like a severely depressed robot:

• hannah diamond - reflections
• farrah abraham - my teenage dream ended

angry moods

to yell out your anger:

• paramore - riot!
• paramore - brand new eyes
• my chemical romance - the black parade
• sleater-kinney - dig me out
• idles - joy as an act of resistance
• poppy - i disagree

to feel PISSED:

• death grips - the money store
• five star hotel - gray data (2014)
• otoboke beaver - itekoma hits

to feel PISSED because of capitalism and cishet white people:

• system of a down - mesmerize
• system of a down - toxicity
• system of a down - system of a down
• rage against the machine - rage against the machine
• m.i.a - matangi
• m.i.a - ΛΛ Λ Y Λ
• linn da quebrada - pajubá

to feel PISSED because of the fucking Christians:

• slayer - raining blood

obscure moods

to feel like a goth lil pop princess:

• grimes - halfaxa (2010)
• grimes - visions
• grimes - geidi primes
• cocteau twins - treasure (1984)
• depeche mode - violator
• kylie minogue - impossible princess (1997)
• goldfrapp - silver eye (2017)
• iamamiwhoami - kin (2012)
• tori amos - from the choirgirl hotel (1998)
• florence + the machine - ceremonials (2011)
• florence + the machine - dance fever (2022)

to feel like you're watching a really strange movie:

• baleia - atlas (2016)
• bat for lashes - two suns (2009)
• björk - fossora (2022)
• goldfrapp - felt mountain
• goldfrapp - tales of us
• jenny hval - apocalypse, girl (2015)
• julia holter - loud city song
• iamamiwhoami - bounty (2013)
• laurie anderson - big science
• lingua ignota - sinner get ready (2021)
• milton nascimento - milagre dos peixes (1973)
• perfume genius - ugly season (2022)

to feel like you're watching a horror movie:

• anna von hausswolff - dead magic (2018)
• dead can dance - within the realm of a dying sun (1987)
• diamanda galás - the litanies of satan (1982)
• lingua ignota - caligula (2019)
• nico - desertshore (1970)
• pharmakon - bestial burden (2014)
• uboa - the origin of my depression (2019)

unsorted

• Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70 - Expensive Shit (1975)
• tyler, the creator - igor
• lorde - pure heroine (2013)
• caroline polachek - pang
• sophie - oil of every pearl's un-insides