Songs that feel like The Queen's Gambit (2020)
A brilliant, isolated mind chases perfection across checkered boards while sedated glamour and private demons threaten to unravel her, all wrapped in cool 1960s elegance.
- The Look Of Love by Dusty Springfield: Smoky, sultry 60s glamour that matches Beth's polished, dangerous allure.
- Walk On By by Dionne Warwick: Cool, aching restraint beneath an immaculate surface.
- Windmills of Your Mind by Noel Harrison: Circling, obsessive thoughts and mannered mid-century elegance.
- Venus In Furs by The Velvet Underground: Droning, narcotic haze for the pills-and-alcohol spiral.
- Take Five by The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Cerebral, off-kilter rhythm like a mind calculating moves.
- Girl Talk by Neal Hefti: Playful, swinging 60s sophistication with a knowing wink.
- Time of the Season by The Zombies: Moody, smoky psychedelic-pop sensuality of the era.
- Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles: Stark strings and portraits of lonely, overlooked lives.
- 'Cello Song by Nick Drake: Fragile, hushed melancholy of private grief.
- Gymnopédie No. 1 by Erik Satie: Spare, hypnotic piano for sleepless nights staring at the ceiling.