Wednesday, June 21 is the Summer Solstice – aka the longest day of the year. This time round, sunrise is at 4:43am and sunset at 9:21pm, meaning we’ll have 16 hours and 38 minutes of sunlight across the day. What kind of tunes can possibly fill such an epically long day? Epically long ones, of course! Here’s 21 to get you started – all of which are eight minutes or longer.

1. William Tyler – ‘Highway Anxiety’

What it is: The opener from the Nashville guitarist’s 2016 album ‘Modern Country’, which is entirely instrumental.
Why it’s amazing: All of ‘Modern Country’ is bloody lovely, to be honest. This one serves as the introduction to the rest of the album, combining elements of country, folk and synthesised sounds and creating a dreamy atmosphere you’ll want to live inside.

2. Donna Summer – ‘Love to Love You Baby’

What it is: The title track from Summer’s second album in 1975, cowritten with disco legend Giorgio Moroder.
Why it’s amazing: Apart from having an iconic melody that you could listen to all day, it’s also smutty enough to have been banned by the BBC, lending it immediate notoriety back in the ’70s. It’s essentially a 16-minute orgasm on record; aged 26, Summer recalled being asked if she was alone in the studio (she was) and who she was fantasising about (“my handsome boyfriend Peter.”)

3. MGMT – ‘Siberian Breaks’

What it is: The closing track on MGMT’s divisive second album ‘Congratulations’, released in 2010.
Why it’s amazing: A microcosm of the off-the-wall album it belongs to, ‘Siberian Breaks’ is gloriously psychedelic, constantly switching between different melodies and rhythms before, at the 9-minute mark, miraculously ending up at the same place it started – and then heading off again into a new cosmos of twinkling synths.