Everything #1015
Sixty-one tracks from the October 2015 cultural slice — alt-pop, indie-rock, and R&B caught at the exact moment streaming had unified the radio dial. The Weeknd handles the dark-falsetto R&B core; Jason Derulo brings the pop-radio rotation guarantee; Royal Blood drops in to remind the room that two-piece blues-rock was briefly massive; Nitty rounds out the rap-radio bridge. The kind of cross-genre run that defined what ‘playlist culture’ would mean by the end of the decade — sequencing as the new album. October 2015 in seventy minutes, before any of it became nostalgia.