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Where to start with Sam Wilkes
Start with How Insensitive. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 14 Sam Wilkes 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 14 Sam Wilkes 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 14 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
A caveat about the data rather than the music: 7 of these 14 tracks arrived here with no record attached, so the record-by-record table further down accounts for 7 of them and stops there.
The mood knob swings 62 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
How Insensitive. Of the 14 Sam Wilkes 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. The room carries no record and no year against this track, so you will have to find it by title. That is a hole in my data rather than a statement about the music.
If you want the melancholy end
Girl — iiyo iiyo iiyo, 2024. The lowest mood reading of any Sam Wilkes track in the room (6 out of 100). This is as far towards melancholy as the collection goes.
If you want the euphoric end
Hug — Wilkes. The highest mood reading here, at 68 out of 100 — a 62-point swing across the collection towards euphoric.
Where Sam Wilkes 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 Sam Wilkes's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 36 | 6–68 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 31 | 15–45 | ambient → driving |
| density | 27 | 9–35 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 51 | 41–63 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| iiyo iiyo iiyo | 2024 | 5 |
| 104.3 | — | 1 |
| Wilkes | — | 1 |
Every Sam Wilkes track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Descending (Frue) | iiyo iiyo iiyo | 2024 |
| Girl | iiyo iiyo iiyo | 2024 |
| I Wanna Be Loved | iiyo iiyo iiyo | 2024 |
| Rain & Snow | iiyo iiyo iiyo | 2024 |
| How Insensitive | — | — |
| Rain | — | — |
| Siri, How Do I Know If I Have Commitment Issues? | — | — |
| Snow | — | — |
| Standing In The Doorway | — | — |
| Too Young To Go Steady | — | — |
| When I Can Read My Titles Clear | — | — |
| I Know I'm Not Wrong | 104.3 | — |
| Descending (WWW) | iiyo iiyo iiyo | — |
| Hug | Wilkes | — |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Sam Wilkes's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Skúli Sverrisson — ambient jazz, 10 tracks
- Where to start with Abdullah Ibrahim — jazz, 16 tracks
- Where to start with Ryuichi Sakamoto — japanese classical, 24 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Sam Wilkes as a solo artist and from Los Angeles, the United States. Its contributors tag the artist jazz. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Sam Wilkes tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 14, across 3 albums. 4 of them carry a date, running from 2024 to 2024. 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 14 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 14 of these 14 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.