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Where to start with Earl Sweatshirt
Start with Loosie — Some Rap Songs, 2018. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 16 Earl Sweatshirt tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 14,971 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 16 Earl Sweatshirt tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 16 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The collection leans hard on one record: 15 of the 16 tracks come from Some Rap Songs alone.
The years need a caveat: 15 of 16 dated tracks land in the 2010s and come from 1 record, while the rest come from elsewhere — the mark of a reissue carrying its own date rather than the music's. Read the year column below as the date on the copy in this room, not the date the music arrived in the world.
The density knob swings 61 points across these tracks, the widest of the four — it is the axis this artist actually travels along in this room.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Loosie — Some Rap Songs, 2018. Of the 15 Earl Sweatshirt tracks here that have actually been listened to, this one sits closest to the average of them across the four knobs the room runs on. The other 1 arrived carrying the default for their genre, and averaging a placeholder in would move the centre towards nothing. It is the least surprising thing among the tracks that were read, which is what an entry point should be.
If you want the sparse end
Riot! — Some Rap Songs, 2018. The lowest density reading of any Earl Sweatshirt track in the room (33 out of 100). This is as far towards sparse as the collection goes.
If you want the wall end
Veins — Some Rap Songs, 2018. The highest density reading here, at 94 out of 100 — a 61-point swing across the collection towards wall.
Where Earl Sweatshirt sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are Earl Sweatshirt's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 59 | 32–80 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 74 | 51–94 | ambient → driving |
| density | 72 | 33–94 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 42 | 27–58 | cerebral → groove |
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Some Rap Songs | 2018 | 15 |
| VOIR DIRE | 2023 | 1 |
Every Earl Sweatshirt track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Azucar | Some Rap Songs | 2018 |
| Cold Summers | Some Rap Songs | 2018 |
| December 24 | Some Rap Songs | 2018 |
| Eclipse | Some Rap Songs | 2018 |
| Loosie | Some Rap Songs | 2018 |
| Nowhere2go | Some Rap Songs | 2018 |
| Ontheway! (feat. Standing On The Corner) | Some Rap Songs | 2018 |
| Peanut | Some Rap Songs | 2018 |
| Playing Possum (feat. Cheryl Harris & Keorapetse Kgositsile) | Some Rap Songs | 2018 |
| Red Water | Some Rap Songs | 2018 |
| Riot! | Some Rap Songs | 2018 |
| Shattered Dreams | Some Rap Songs | 2018 |
| The Bends | Some Rap Songs | 2018 |
| The Mint (feat. Navy Blue) | Some Rap Songs | 2018 |
| Veins | Some Rap Songs | 2018 |
| Heat Check | VOIR DIRE | 2023 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Earl Sweatshirt's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Quelle Chris — experimental hip hop, 19 tracks
- Where to start with Wiki — experimental hip hop, 16 tracks
- Where to start with Viktor Vaughn — experimental hip hop, 15 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Earl Sweatshirt as a solo artist, from Chicago and born in 1994. Its contributors tag the artist rap, hip-hop, experimental, hip hop and lo-fi. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Earl Sweatshirt tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 16, across 2 albums. 16 of them carry a date, running from 2018 to 2023. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. 15 of these 16 tracks have been read that way. The other 1 arrived with the default for their genre and nobody has listened to them yet, so they are left out of the centre, the ends and the spread quoted above.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 16 of these 16 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.