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Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

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Led by the enigmatic vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and all-around mastermind known as Vessel, the masked, anonymous group Sleep Token appeared seemingly out of nowhere in 2016, fusing modern R&B sensibilities and hip-hop with a staccato metal barrage and Vessel’s Deftones-esque vocal delivery to create a musical landscape that blurs genres. Early single “Jaws” slithers between synth bubbles and a rim-shot backbeat before a tidal wave of guitars gives way to Vessel’s alluring vocal melody. The haunting piano melodies and chiming guitars of “Take Me Back to Eden” lead a dramatic vocal line into a churning metal maelstrom before Vessel spits some bars. “The Summoning” pummels with nu metal grooves before dropping into a glistening guitar solo and a soaring chorus. A spacey synth intro brings “Alkaline” into focus as it slow-burns into an angelic sing-along punctuated by a grinding stop-start guitar riff. Is it metal? Who cares? Sleep Token is building their own genre.

By the 1990s, it started to feel like the Song of the Summer had turned into a real thing—this stuff wasn’t an accident anymore; it was a competition. Not that the music suffered for it. If anything, even the rise of alternative rock—bands who seemed almost constitutionally opposed to joining in on such ordinary fun—produced great summer songs, while hip-hop’s move toward the mainstream and the boy-band/teen-pop wave gave us more big-tent pleasures than we knew what to do with. With that, here’s a playlist that captures not only the spirit of ’90s pop, but the summers it soundtracked—and still does. Our editors like to mix things up here now and then, so if you hear something you like, add it to your library.