Quarantunes: 4 playlists recommended by Vogue to keep you on your feet

Just because you’re cooped up doesn’t mean you can’t let loose

Quarantunes Music to listen to Playlists Alia Bhatt
Suresh Natarajan

It’s been over a week since we began working from home and gave social distancing a real shot. Mornings spent stretching out kinks in online yoga classes, days packed with video conferences and work-from-home assignments, evenings whiled away on Houseparty with the folks we’d usually meet each night…

But it’s also been great to get a lot of stuff done around the house that you’ve likely put off for some time. I know I have. So this past weekend, I did a bit of spring/summer cleaning. I emptied out my desk drawers and reorganised the four bookshelves I have in my room, along with a bookcase and a cupboard stuffed with even more hardcovers and paperbacks. Halfway through, I realised this would be a lot better with music. So I took inspiration from the fine folk on the interwebs—who have been making the most out of coronavirus-mandated social distancing by creating and sharing some great playlists, tagged #Quarantunes—and created one of my own.

There’s something upbeat for many moods, spanning genres and eras, so here’s hoping these get you through the week:

Mood: ’80s-throwback feels

When you want the best of the ’80s groove without having to dig into the archives

1. The 1975: Somebody else

2. Midnight Mystery Club: True love

3. Midnight Magic: Beam me up

4. Jungle: Casio

5. Jungle: Busy earnin’

6. Lifelike: Silicon love

7. The Paper Kites: When it hurts you

9. Gamesofluck: Parcels

Mood: Old-school cool

When “sounds like it” just won’t cut it

1. Blondie: Heart of glass

2. Donna Summer: I feel love

3. George Michael: Freedom

4. The Psychedelic Furs: Love my way

5. Roxy Music: More than this

Mood: Beach vibes

Just because you’re not floating in a blue, bathtub-warm ocean doesn’t mean you can’t imagine it

1. Bondax: Gold (Snakehips bootleg)

2. Bonobo: Migration

3. Bonobo: Terrapin

4. Bittersweet: Heaven

5. Goldroom: Fifteen

6. Flight facilities: Two bodies moving (Darius remix)

7. Darius & Le Crayon: Alicia

8. The C90s: Shine a light (Flight Facilities remix)

IV. Mood: Dance like nobody’s watching

Put on those sweats and dance out your cabin fever

1. Void Vision:  Sour (Vanzetti & Sacco remix)

2. 5 Reasons: Down on my knees (Boys Get Hurt remix)

3. Benet: Floating

4. Black Honey: Midnight

5. Is Tropical: Dancing anymore

6. Koobra: Something real  

7. Robyn: Honey

8. Class Actress: More than you

9. MØ: Don’t wanna dance (Darius remix)

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