The playlist that’s been getting me through editing

I’m not the kind of writer who can work in silence. Weirdly, I find it way more distracting and end up antsy and unfocused and, as I’m prone to a healthy dose of procrastination more often than not, this gives me carte blanche to spend far longer than I should curating a playlist for such purposes. Editing is exactly the same; I need to be so inside the world I’ve created, absorbed in the story, the characters, embedded so deeply I can see it play out in my head, that the mood has to be set before I can start hacking away at my prose.
For The Bone Fairy I’ve had the same playlist since its conception, only adding on a couple of songs here and there over the YEARS that it’s taken to get it this far. I thought I’d list it below - a fun little crumb of the vibe, and I’ll update it later to tag specific scenes or chapters that each song set up in my head.

Take Me To Church - Hozier
Someone New - Hozier
Demons - Imagine Dragons
Brother - Matt Corby
Bloodstream - Stateless (yes, I was a TVD fan back in the day!)
Mess is Mine - Vance Joy
Glitter & Gold - Barns Courtney
All the Pretty Girls - Kaleo
All I Need - Within Temptation (Another TVD throwback!)
Distance - Christina Perri
That Home - The Cinematic Orchestra
Shake it Out - Florence + The Machine
Way down We Go - Kaleo
River - Bishop Briggs
The Bones - Maren Morris, Hozier
Sure Thing - Miguel
Georgia - Vance Joy
Never Be Like You - Flume, kai
Movement - Hozier
Bloom - The Paper Kites
Believer - Imagine Dragons
Circles - Greta Savo Bech, Ludovico Einaudi