Blackout Hymns: A Phantogram Listening Ritual

black out days, diamond mouths

Some artists don’t just soundtrack your life—they haunt it.

Phantogram has been that for me. Their music feels like memory filtered through reverb. Soft static. Glittering distortion. The sound of something beautiful trying not to fall apart.

I’ve played these songs during breakdowns, night drives, rituals I didn’t know were rituals.

Sometimes I hit repeat before the first chorus ends. Sometimes I let them play like a low hum in the background while I move through grief or boredom or whatever lives between the two.

This is my space. My spell. A slow burn.

I call it black out hymns.

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how to listen

There’s no “right” way, but here’s how I built it:

All 69 tracks are by Phantogram—no features, no filler. I arranged them to feel like a descent and a return. Don’t shuffle it. Let it unfold. Best heard through headphones, maybe in a dark room or during a foggy walk. Loop the last few if you’re not ready to come back.

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what it feels like

There’s a certain kind of night that drags its feet.

You know the one. You’re staring at the ceiling at 2AM, wide awake, your thoughts a loop of static and ache. 

Not sadness, exactly — more like some kind of haunted clarity.

That’s the space this playlist comes from.

These songs — mostly Phantogram, with a few glitchy cameos from Big Grams — are for the moments you feel stretched thin and electrified. 

When your skin remembers things your brain tried to forget.

The sound is sharp and dreamy. Synth-heavy. Loaded with ghosts.

Some songs hit like hypnosis. Others like heartbreak in slow motion.

Originally, this was just going to be 30 or 40 songs. But it kept growing — like grief does — so now it’s 69.

It’s not chronological or neat, but it moves.

Let it.

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the playlist

🖤 black out hymns

📍 Spotify playlist (listen)

🎧 69 tracks

🌘 Liminal mood. Glitchy melancholy. Velvet static.

“You’re never gonna get it / I’m a hazard to myself…”

Phantogram – Black Out Days  

Big Grams – Born to Shine (feat. Run The Jewels)  

Phantogram – 10,000 Claps  

Phantogram – Celebrating Nothing  

Big Grams – Drum Machine (feat. Skrillex)  

Phantogram – Turn It Off  

Phantogram – Feedback Invisible  

Big Grams – Lights On  

Phantogram – Love Me Now  

Phantogram – Take Me Home  

Phantogram – Happy Again  

Phantogram – Nothing But Trouble  

Phantogram – Futuristic Casket  

Big Grams – Goldmine Junkie  

Phantogram – When I’m Small  

Phantogram – All Dried Up  

Phantogram – Bill Murray  

Phantogram – Calling All  

Big Grams – Put It On Her  

Phantogram – Someday  

Phantogram – Turning Into Stone  

Phantogram – Barking Dog  

Phantogram – Walk Down  

Phantogram – Memory Of A Day  

Big Grams – Fell In The Sun  

Phantogram – Saturday  

Phantogram – My Only Friend  

Phantogram – Shotgun Smiles  

Phantogram – Answer  

Phantogram – Funeral Pyre  

Phantogram – Glowing  

Phantogram – I Wanna Know  

Phantogram – You’re Mine  

Phantogram – You Are the Ocean  

Phantogram – Fall In Love  

Phantogram – It Wasn’t Meant To Be  

Phantogram – Same Old Blues  

Phantogram – Mouthful of Diamonds  

Phantogram – Let Me Down  

Phantogram – Destroyer  

Phantogram – Suzie  

Phantogram – Run Run Blood  

Phantogram – Cruel World  

Phantogram – Jealousy  

Phantogram – Dear God  

Phantogram – Howling At The Moon  

Phantogram – In A Spiral  

Phantogram – Mister Impossible  

Phantogram – Into Happiness  

Phantogram – Pedestal  

Phantogram – K.Y.S.A.  

Phantogram – Make A Fist  

Phantogram – 16 Years  

Phantogram – The Day You Died  

Phantogram – Ashes  

Phantogram – All A Mystery  

Phantogram – Move In Silence  

Phantogram – News Today  

Phantogram – Ceremony  

Phantogram – Attaway  

Phantogram – Don’t Move  

Phantogram – Come Alive  

Phantogram – As Far As I Can See  

Phantogram – Into Happiness  

Phantogram – It Wasn’t Meant To Be  

Phantogram – Love Me Now  

Big Grams – Lights On  

Phantogram – Voices  

Phantogram – You Don’t Get Me High Anymore  

These tracks don’t demand attention—they dissolve into you. Like background radiation. Or the echo of something you forgot was real.

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closing thoughts

Some albums are journals. Some songs are spells.

Phantogram’s catalog, for me, is both. It’s what I play when I need to feel something but don’t want to explain it. When memory glitches. When reality needs softening. When I need something sad that also sounds like glitter.

If you’ve got 5 hours, grab some headphones and press play.

Then keep going. Or disappear. Or loop tracks until the stars come back.

Whatever works.

Stay curious.