You’re feeling the vibe with someone new, and you don’t want the night to end, so you invite your date back to your place. When you arrive, you flip through your record collection, pull out Al Green’s Greatest Hits album and put it on the record player. As “Tired of Being Alone” fills the room, you mix a classic cocktail called the Hanky Panky, pour it into two glasses, garnish each one with a twist of orange, and join your date on the couch. You don’t have to ditch your Spotify playlist of sex songs for good, but there’s something to be said for the old-school style of seduction.

A new book called Booze and Vinyl: A Spirited Guide to Great Music & Mixed Drinks pairs 70 classic albums with simple drink recipes—one for Side A and one for Side B—designing an assortment of sensory experiences you can easily recreate at home. With Booze and Vinyl, brother-and-sister writing team André and Tenaya Darlington combine their taste in music with their taste for drinks, and the results are tantalizing.“

“I was just reading a book called The Revenge of the Analog, and there was this great line about how we’ve become so digitally inclined that when we relax, we want to engage all of our senses, and so that’s why analog is making such a comeback,” Tenaya tells Playboy. “You think of the record, it’s so tactile, so visual. It’s sound, but it’s different from the beeps and clangs and the clean sounds we’re used to hearing.” She goes on to note the grit–the pop and hiss–that inspires her to relax on the couch and cuddle up to someone. “It is a much more sensual experience than having earbuds in and looking through Instagram at the same time.” André adds, “It’s been fascinating, because we both grew up in the vinyl era when albums were still king, but we talk to so many people now that we’ve done this book who say, ‘I can’t remember the last time I listened to two songs by the same artist back to back—let alone an album.’”

As for which vinyl and cocktail pairing the authors would personally use to impress a date, André chose Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue, which he describes as “the thinking man’s seduction album,” because it shows you’re sophisticated enough to know at least one jazz album. He pairs it with the Martinez, a precursor to the martini: “It packs a wallop, it’s historically interesting, and really delicious. For some reason, I think of that as a great, classic hi-fi seduction experience.”

Tenaya chooses Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black. She says, “It’s just a very chill album. I love to eat, so I’m like, ‘Let’s fire up the grill, have some drinks under the stars, maybe share a roll-your-own cigarette…’” She pairs it with a super-simple cocktail, the Calimocho. “It’s a really cheap riff on sangria. It’s literally just red wine, Coca-Cola, and a splash of lime.”

After André interjects, “It sounds awful, but it’s fantastic,” Tenaya explains that the unusual combination is part of the drink’s appeal. “People are stunned because they can’t put their finger on what they’re tasting. It’s red wine, but it’s bubbly, and there’s citrus from the lime. If you’re bringing someone home, you want a smoky atmosphere from the grill, and you want a quick drink so you’re not in the kitchen shaking and stirring your brains out,” she says, adding that Back to Black is “the ultimate album for slow, smoky seduction.”

The book is divided into four sections—rock, dance, chill, and seduce. The authors intentionally choose albums that are widely available, with an eye on diversity. André says, “We didn’t want it to all be white males from the ‘70s, which would be very easy to do, because that was sort of the cradle of vinyl—1970s rock.” Because it includes music from various genres and eras, the book could also be useful to beginning collectors. Tenaya says, “We felt like these 70 albums would be terrific for seeding anybody’s collection.”

If you’re new to the world of vinyl, you don’t have to go out and spend a fortune on a turntable, tuner and amp to get in on the analog action. “It’s okay to buy one of these $100 record players to see if you like it,” says Andre. “The older folks who were listening to these albums in the 1950s and 1960s brought to our attention that those cheap players that people would have on their bedroom floor is how most people experienced the first Rolling Stones and the first Beatles albums and that kind of stuff. It was all pre hi-fi. Some of the albums sound absolutely magnificent on those cheap record players—the blues and the soul, the Stones, a lot of the 1960s music.” Really, as long as you put a bit of thought into your mixing choices at the bar and on the turntable, you can’t go wrong.

Booze and Vinyl: A Spirited Guide to Great Music & Mixed Drinks (Running Press) went on sale April 17, 2018.