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Where to start with Mary Lattimore
Start with Baltic Birch — Hundreds of Days, 2018. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 20 Mary Lattimore 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 20 Mary Lattimore 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 20 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 years need a caveat: 12 of 20 dated tracks land in the 2010s and come from 2 records, 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.
Every track is filed under ambient; nothing here crosses into another genre.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Baltic Birch — Hundreds of Days, 2018. Of the 20 Mary Lattimore tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
If you want the groove end
Hello from the Edge of the Earth — Hundreds of Days, 2018. The highest head/body reading here, at 55 out of 100 — a 38-point swing across the collection towards groove.
Only the groove end is offered here. The cerebral extreme of Mary Lattimore in this room is the same track as the centre above, and printing it twice under two headings would be padding.
Where Mary Lattimore 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 Mary Lattimore's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 42 | 18–44 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 17 | 15–18 | ambient → driving |
| density | 36 | 9–38 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 19 | 17–55 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silver Ladders | 2020 | 7 |
| Hundreds of Days | 2018 | 6 |
| At the Dam | 2016 | 6 |
| Goodbye, Hotel Arkada | 2023 | 1 |
Every Mary Lattimore track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Ferris Wheel, January | At the Dam | 2016 |
| Jaxine Drive | At the Dam | 2016 |
| Jimmy V | At the Dam | 2016 |
| Mira Built a Bonfire | At the Dam | 2016 |
| Otis Walks Into The Woods | At the Dam | 2016 |
| The Quiet at Night | At the Dam | 2016 |
| Baltic Birch | Hundreds of Days | 2018 |
| Hello from the Edge of the Earth | Hundreds of Days | 2018 |
| It Feels Like Floating | Hundreds of Days | 2018 |
| Never Saw Him Again | Hundreds of Days | 2018 |
| On the Day You Saw the Dead Whale | Hundreds of Days | 2018 |
| Their Faces Streaked with Light and Filled with Pity | Hundreds of Days | 2018 |
| Chop on the Climbout | Silver Ladders | 2020 |
| Don't Look | Silver Ladders | 2020 |
| Pine Trees | Silver Ladders | 2020 |
| Silver Ladders | Silver Ladders | 2020 |
| Sometimes He's In My Dreams | Silver Ladders | 2020 |
| Thirty Tulips | Silver Ladders | 2020 |
| Til A Mermaid Drags You Under | Silver Ladders | 2020 |
| Yesterday's Parties (feat. Rachel Goswell and Samara Lubelski) | Goodbye, Hotel Arkada | 2023 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Mary Lattimore's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Harold Budd — ambient, 35 tracks
- Where to start with Hiroshi Yoshimura — ambient, 23 tracks
- Where to start with Brian Eno — ambient, 18 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Mary Lattimore as a solo artist and from Asheville, the United States. Its contributors tag the artist new age, experimental and ambient. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Mary Lattimore tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 20, across 4 albums. 20 of them carry a date, running from 2016 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. All 20 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 20 of these 20 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.