Find the songsyou meant to hear.

RIYL turns your recent obsessions, lifelong favorites, and the little things you love in a song into one tight 9-song weekly mixtape.

Checking your notebook

This week / Personal / No filler

Hands browsing records in a crate — crate digging
the good bin

Cassette tape and handwritten listening notes — handwritten note
side a / no filler

One person handing another a record — friend to friend
try this one

Headphones beside a listening notebook — listening desk
notes while it plays

Small stage in an intimate music room — small room
the opener that stuck

Passed across the counter

Recent obsessionsLifetime favoritesSongwriting traitsThe Rabbit HoleOne good listen

Play counts remember everything

We listen for what matters right now.

A play count cannot explain why a chorus stopped you in your tracks. RIYL is designed around the human clues: the melodic turn, the imperfect voice, the exact mood of a Tuesday night.

Your current phase, not your permanent record.

Recent listening gets more weight, so this week's mixtape sounds like who you are now.

The songs that tell the story.

Every song gets a short note. The Thread opens the few that best reveal why RIYL followed this path.

Not infinite discovery. Intentional discovery.

Nine songs. No filler. A short weekly mix chosen for where your taste is pointing next.

RIYL weekly / private press

Nine songs. No filler.

01 warm guitars03:18

02 quick chorus03:19

03 close vocal03:20

04 left turnThe Thread

05 better doorway03:22

06 no filler03:23

07 late-night lift03:24

08 rough edge03:25

09 closer03:26

catalog note

followed the hook, kept the dirt

Why this one?

“The loose guitar and lived-in vocal sit exactly between your Skegss week and your Big Star forever.”

A mixtape with liner notes

Discovery feels better with a little context.

Every song has a short note. The Thread carries the deeper explanations for the picks that best tell the story of the mixtape.

Open this week's mixtape