Robert Ellis’ Playlist For Falling Asleep After a Night Out

Robert Ellis’s music has that soulful twang that recalls the best of the alternative country movement of 20 years ago. When we asked Ellis to make us a playlist, we were expecting a list of exactly the kind of songwriters that he recalls — but what we received was very different. This collection of songs demonstrates just how diverse someones tastes and influences can be and is best described in his own words:

This is a playlist of songs I listen to late at night while trying to go to sleep. This playlist should help with coming down off of drugs (spare a few inevitable moments of anxiety). It could also be a playlist to have very strange, intense sex to which is the best kind of sex.

Playlist

Bill Evans – A Time For Love

This is from a record called Alone. I fell in love with this record around 5 years ago while on tour with Dawes in Europe. I was staying in a hostel in Berlin. There was a dance party happening within ear shot of my shared room (5 beds). I blasted this album over headphones until I could finally fall asleep. A couple hours in I was woken up by two Spanish girls who claimed I had stolen their bed, in a room full of empty beds. I love falling asleep to this album.

Chet Baker – There’s a Lull in My Life

Nobody sings like Chet. This is from a record called Embraceable You. Voice, guitar, and trumpet. Just beautiful. More difficult to sleep to because I can’t help but sing along.

Tim Hecker – In the fog I

Tim Hecker is brilliant. Maybe the best and by far the loudest concert I’ve ever seen. Somewhere in Bushwick. The sound literally blew your clothes against your body. I try and sleep to this often.

Philip Glass – Facades

I’m sure everyone is familiar with this song from the Masterpiece Glassworks.

Bill Evans – Dream Gypsy

More Evans but now with Jim Hall. Listen at 1:19. Jim Hall clearly demonstrates what a total master of time he is. That run makes me pause every time I hear it. These two communicate so well.