The Most Musical March

As August rolls on, schools across the country are just days or weeks from starting fall semester. I think I speak for most when I say this has probably been the weirdest summer ever. Shelter-in-place orders were put in place mid-March, and it feels like normal life has just halted to a stop ever since.
What hasn’t stopped, luckily, is new music, and one of the things I was most excited about during this very dreary period is all the new and old content I’d catch up on. I’m always going to remember the following songs as those that got me through staying at home for the longest March ever. Here are just a few highlights of my long, quarantine playlist-filled summer.

MARCH:
Chilombo / Jhene Aiko
TAKE TIME / Giveon
Future Nostalgia / Dua Lipa
Partymobile / PARTYNEXTDOOR
Heaven or Hell / Don Toliver

Is Everybody Going Crazy? / Nothing But Thieves
April / Beach Bunny
Heartbreak Weather / Niall Horan
Between Us / dvsn ft. Snoh Alegra
The Difference / Flume, Toro y Moi

APRIL:
KIKI / Kiana Ledé
SAWAMAYA / Rina Sawamaya
TO FEEL ALIVE EP / Kali Uchis
A Muse In Her Feelings / dvsn
It Was Divine / Alina Baraz

Veg Out (Wasting Thyme) / Masego
California / Kota the Friend
Rose Bowl / Rexx Life Raj
QUARANTINE CLEAN / Turbo, Gunna, Young Thug
Dear April (Side A – Acoustic) / Frank Ocean

MAY:
It Was Good Until It Wasn’t / Kehlani
Notes on a Conditional Form / The 1975
EVERYTHING / Kota the Friend
How Do You Feel About Getting Married? / Dijon
HIGHTIDE / Leven Kali

Picture Perfect / UMI
26 / A.K.
ARGENTINA / Gunna
Honey In The Summer / PUBLIC
Eleven / Khalid ft. Summer Walker

JUNE:
6pc Hot EP / 6LACK
Bigger Love / John Legend
The Imperfect Storm / Wale
RTJ4 / Run The Jewels
A Letter To My Younger Self / Quinn XCII

Snow On Tha Bluff / J. Cole
Song 33 / Noname
Experience / Victoria Monet, Khalid, SG Lewis
I Just Wanna Live / Keedron Bryant
I Can’t Breathe / H.E.R.

JULY:
What Could Possibly Go Wrong / Dominic Fike
B7 / Brandy
Life On Earth – EP / Summer Walker
LINGO STARR / tobi lou
The Prelude / Pink Sweat$

my future / Billie Eilish
Are You Even Real / James Blake
Shine / Joey Bada$$
Cabin Fever / Jaden
SWAG / YG

AUGUST:
Limbo / Aminé
JAGUAR / Victoria Monet

WAP / Cardi B
Cookie Chips / Rejjie Snow, MF DOOM, Cam O’bi
Stayback / Omar Apollo

And here’s a comprehensive playlist!

Written by Sanjana Sanghani.

Featured image by Nhung Le in NY Times’ I Hope My Neighbor Plays Beyoncé Tonight.