Travelmarx Spring 2025 Playlist - Bourgeois Manqué

40 album covers for Travelmarx Spring 2025 Playlist – Bourgeois Manqué

Ah yes, the annual Travelmarx summer playlist—where we cast our hot musical selections into the cosmos of infinite choice. Perhaps, one day, curiosity will strike, and we’ll find ourselves wondering, "What was that one song?" 

We’ve named this playlist Bourgeois Manqué, inspired by Dean Wareham’s opening track. The term captures a yearning or striving for middle-class stability that is just out of reach. Financial constraints, missed opportunities, self-sabotage? All of the above. 

So here it is. A collection of songs for the aspirational, the wistful, the resigned. Enjoy. Spotify.


Dean Wareham - album “That’s the Price of Loving Me”, song “Bourgeois Manqué”
Lael Neale - album “Tell Me How To Be Here”, song “Tell Me How To Be Here”
Dana Gavanski - album “Wind Songs”, song “I Talk to the Wind”
The South Hill Experiment - album “EARTHBREAKS”, song “Name a Star”
Baqui - album “Oxis”, song “Baqui”
Saul Adamczewski, Marley Mackey - album “The Coward”, song “Cholera”
Tunng, William Doyle - album “Snails (William Doyle Remix)”, song “Snails - William Doyle Remix”
Saya Gray - album “SAYA”, song “10 WAYS ( TO LOSE A CROWN )”

Woo - album “Music to Watch Seeds Grow By 001: Woo (Sweet Peas)”, song “H2O Revisited”
Papooz, Erlend Øye - album “Make It Work”, song “Make It Work”
Panda Bear - album “Sinister Grift”, song “50mg”
Youth Lagoon - album “Rarely Do I Dream”, song “Canary”
Ledus - album “Beloved”, song “Beloved”
Adrian Crowley - album “Measure Of Joy”, song “Measure Of Joy”
Dark Dark Dark - album “Bright Bright Bright”, song “Bright Bright Bright”
Japanese Breakfast - album “Soft Sounds from Another Planet”, song “Diving Woman”

POLIÇA - album “Madness”, song “Alive”
Heather Woods Broderick - album “Glider”, song “A Call for Distance”
Jenny Hval - album “Classic Objects”, song “American Coffee”
Lady Blackbird - album “Black Acid Soul”, song “Collage”
Scrimshire, Miryam Solomon - album “Nothing Feels Like Everything”, song “Heron”
Jack J - album “Blue Desert”, song “Born Without a Smile”
Tunng - album “Turbines”, song “By This”
Blonde Redhead - album “3 O'Clock”, song “Where Your Mind Wants to Go”

Loren Kramar - album “Glovemaker”, song “Hollywood Blvd E”
Molly Burch - album “First Flower”, song “To the Boys”
Alex Maas - album “Luca”, song “Been Struggling”
Big Black Delta - album “Big Black Delta”, song “Love You This Summer”
Michael Kiwanuka - album “Light (Edit)”, song “Light – Edit"
Yukimi, Little Dragon - album “Sad Makeup”, song “Sad Makeup”
The Leisure Society - album “The Sleeper & a Product of the Ego Drain”, song “We Were Wasted”
anaiis, Grupo Cosmo - album “anaiis & Grupo Cosmo”, song “B.P.E”

Erika de Casier - album “Essentials”, song “Little Bit”
Chris Cohen – album “Paint a Room”, song “Dog’s Face”
helen island – album “silence is priceless”, song “me & who ?”
Chinese American Bear – album “Wah!!!”, song “Magic Number”
Azymuth – album “Zé e Paraná”, song “Zé e Paraná”
Samantha Crain – album “Pick Apart”, song “Bloomsday”
Death Machine – album “Orbit”, song "Isle of Mine”
Camp Saint Helene – album “Of Earth and its Timely Delights”, song “Anniversary”