Power Playlist: Best Songs By Female Musicians

By Erica Martin, March 8, 2018

From Nova Heart to Fever Ray, interviewees from our Women in Music feature recommend their favorite songs by female-led bands or musicians. Spotify playlist below, with additional recs embedded (VPN required for some). Recommendations by Cookie Zhang, Sun Yi, Lieselotte Wang, Yvonne Chen, Hisana Yan, Kristen Ng, and Lolly Fan.

Alpine Decline – ‘Blameless’:

<a href="http://downloads.maybemars.org/album/return-to-desolation-lake">Return to Desolation Lake by Alpine Decline</a>

Hiperson – ‘Reaping’:

<a href="http://hiperson.bandcamp.com/album/no-need-for-another-history">我不要别的历史 No Need For Another History by Hiperson/海朋森</a>

The Hormones – ‘Darkness of the Light’: listen on Douban here.

Powder – ‘Heart’:

Shiina Ringo – ‘Suberidai’:

Carter Tutti Void – ‘v1’:

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