Christine and the Queens: Soft Nostalgia

Editors’ Notes Leave it to Christine and the Queens’ pop provocateur Héloïse Letissier to find the poetry in summer. "Summer is the possibility of a soft nostalgia," she says. "The sun on your skin and the sun of all the summers before that, from the delicious boredom of the young years to something more languid." The playlist she assembled certainly looks back fondly and hazily on pop and hip-hop classics—Ice Cube’s "It Was a Good Day," plus Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Tears for Fears—but it doesn’t neglect current stars in that vein, such as Kali Uchis, YG, and Tame Impala.