Marcel Winatschek

Big City Rooftops

I found this mixtape called Big City Rooftops and the title alone grabbed me—that specific quiet of a rooftop in a city at night, surrounded by millions of people but completely isolated. The songs fit that mood exactly. Electronic, nocturnal, slightly sad. Jamie xx, DENA, Boat Club—they make music that sounds like thinking by yourself in a tall building at three in the morning, staring at lights and working through thoughts you can’t name. Not club music. Just loneliness with a soundtrack.