I feel I need to observe that when I make these mixtapes I’m thinking musically rather than thematically in a literary sense. So, lyrics don’t really factor much into my decisions. I’m primarily selecting based on a music thematic — for example mixtapes like these are about my favourites amongst newer releases and then I … Continue reading Tuesday Mixtape 06/03/2023
I don’t do best-of lists anymore because my listening is too sporadic these days and I keep forgetting things. Nevertheless, here’s what I remember enjoying the most. Spitting Off The Edge Of The World — Yeah Yeah Yeahs (ft Perfume Genius) Diarabi — Vieux Farka Touré and Khruangbin Billions — Caroline Polachek King — Florence + … Continue reading Some Music I Enjoyed in 2022: An Incomplete List
Endlessly — Omar Apollo (Live at NPR’s Tiny Desk) Fallout — Yo La Tengo Sweet Obsolete — Julien Chang One of my favourite new releases of the past few weeks. Gondii –King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Bless This Mess — U.S. Girls Just Make It Stop — Low Finally, a Low song. Am heartbroken … Continue reading Saturday Mixtape 12/11/2022
Love Me More — Mitski Who Has Seen The Wind? — David Byrne, Yo La Tengo, (Yoko Ono) All Alone — Best Coast Fyodor Dormant — Beirut Honeycomb — Tim Atlas Continue reading Wednesday Mixtape 12/01/2022
The theme for tonight’s Friday Night Mixtape is “Bittersweet Mellow”, mostly because I started the day listening to Jesca Hoop, and because I injured my knee and therefore am hardly in the mood for dance-y type music. But there’s more than one kind of Friday Night jam. This one is for sleepy, low-energy Friday evenings … Continue reading Friday Night Mixtape 17/07/2020
Lilacs — Waxahatchee Waxahatchee’s Saint Cloud (2020) is now my favourite Waxahatchee album. My Rajneesh — Sufjan Stevens This is the B-Side to America, that dropped a little over a week ago, but this is a masterpiece. It’s like Age of Adz meets Illinoise meets Seven Swans (which was my Sufjan gateway drug). So good. … Continue reading Monday Mixtape 13/07/2020
