Winter Roadtrip Playlist

To keep up the good cheer we’ve been spreading, like the colds everyone else have been spreading, we thought we’d treat you with some wonderful winter playlists to help you with those quick trips to meet the family for the holidays. As you know now, Gen and I are no strangers to long drives for short adventures, but we’re slowly getting ready to take a little break from the hectic mess we call our lives to partake in the Christmas spirit and celebrations. Here are a couple of playlists we came up with to make your winter roadtrips memorable.

GEN'S: Winter Tunes to Warm You, So Hot They'll Scald the Roof of Your Mouth Like That Peppermint Hot Chocolate You Picked up During the Mandatory Stop at Tim's on the 6 Hour Drive to Your Parent's House PLAYLIST

1. After the Disco, Broken Bells
2. Winter Winds, Mumford & Sons
3. White Winter Hymnal, Fleet Foxes
4. New Year’s Eve, First Aid Kit
5. Violet Hill, Coldplay
6. Winter Sound, Of Monsters and Men
7. The Stranger, Lord Huron
8. Northern Blues, City and Colour
9. Lost in my mind, The Head and The Heart
10. Hasn’t Hit Me Yet, Blue Rodeo
11. Fellow in the North, Cold Weather Company
12. Rarefied, Sam Roberts
13. Solstice Bells, Jethro Tull (This one’s for you, Richard)
14. Brother of my Heart, Klondike
15. The Ceiling, Wild Feathers
16. Winter’s Heir, Sea Wolf
17. Coming Home, Leon Bridges
18. Cold Cold Cold, Cage the Elephant
19. Amerika, Wintersleep
20. Is It Any Wonder? Keane
21. The Cold Part, Modest Mouse
22. Brother, Hanging Valleys


KYLA'S: Driving Through the Snow, In a One-Light CR-V; Over the Hills We Go, With Poor Visibility PLAYLIST


1. Blood Bank; Bon Iver
2. New Year’s Day; Taylor Swift
3. Walking the Wire; Imagine Dragons
4. Excavate (feat. Saint Claire); Macklemore
5. Perfect Symphony; Ed Sheeran & Andrea Bocelli
6. Heavenly Father; High as a Kite (cover)
7. Fare Thee Well; The Rankin Family
8. Lungs; Vancouver Sleep Clinic
9. Nobody Opened the Door; Cobi
10. Sick of Losing Soulmates; Dodie
11. This is Why I Love you; Jesse Ruben
12. Once Upon a December; Emile Pandolfi
13. Little Darling; Lewis Watson
14. Alps; Novo Amor & Ed Tullet
15. Snow; Sleeping At Last
16. Edelweiss; The Honey Trees
17. 7 Years; The Church Sisters
18. All That You Have is Your Soul; Tracy Chapman
19. All Comes Down To; Kodaline
20. Silhouette (feat. Ellie Goulding); Active Child
21. Delicate; Damien Rice
22. Save Yourself; Kaleo

And for an extra treat, here are the other playlist names with wrestled with and didn't pick, but still thought they deserved to be viewed by our fellow followers. Enjoy the jokes. Enjoy the music. And enjoy the holidays!

Gen:

• This'll Probably Make You More Melancholy Than Put You Indie Spirit of the Holidays PLAYLIST;
• Stressed and Depressed but At Least It's Almost Christmas PLAYLIST;
• This Will Not Put You Indie Spirit of the Holidays but At Least It's Good Music PLAYLIST;
• Like Mittens for your Eardrums PLAYLIST;
• Oh the Road Conditions Are Frightful but the Tunes in the Car, Delightful PLAYLIST.

Kyla:

• A Very Merry Mixtape;
• An Emotional Sleigh Ride PLAYLIST;
• I'd Like To Sing Along But My Tongue Is Stuck To A Metal Pole Playlist;
• Hot as Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire PLAYLIST;
• Will Warm Up Your Winter Cold Heart PLAYLIST;
• I’ve Sold my Soul to Santa for this Playlist….I Meant Satan but I’m Going to Roll With That Autocorrect Because I’d Rather Freeze in the Snow Than Burn in Hell PLAYLIST;

Warms wishes, happy holidays and merry Christmas, 

Kyla & Gen