Mux154: September 2014

I rather like this one.

Boom.

1. Wye Oak - Two Small Deaths (Civilian)
2. Phoenix - If I Ever Feel Better (Run Run Run)
3. Katy B - 5 AM (Little Red)
4. Daft Punk - Around The World (Homework)
5. The Flaming Lips - Buggin' (The Soft Bulletin)
6. Boris - Taiyo No Baka (Noise)
7. Vampire Weekend - Diane Young (Modern Vampires of the City)
8. Fleet Foxes - He Doesn't Know Why (Fleet Foxes)
9. Phantogram - Bill Murray (Voices)
10. Dirty Projectors - Impregnable Question (Swing Lo Magellan)
11. A.C. Newman - 35 In The Shade (The Slow Wonder)
12. Todd Terje - Inspector Norse (It's Album Time)

TRT 47:11

2014 music: Boris, Katy B, Phantogram, Todd Terje

Mux082: August 2011

Gave this one a little room to breathe.

In the Dropbox.

1. Peter Bjorn and John - Tomorrow Has To Wait
2. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Heart In Your Heartbreak
3. Jay Reatard - Hammer I Miss You
4. Deerhunter - Primitive 3D (Edit)
5. Sleater-Kinney - One More Hour
6. Wilco - A Shot In The Arm
7. Fleet Foxes - Sim Sala Bim
8. Bon Iver - Holocene
9. Titus Andronicus - Upon Viewing Brueghel's "Landscape With The Fall of Icarus"
10. Yacht - Shangri-La
11. Washed Out - A Dedication

Rookies:
Washed Out

Mux016: January 2009, the reissue

Another day, another reissue.

1. Hot Chip - Out At The Pictures
2. The Mae Shi - The Lamb And The Lion
3. Titus Andronicus - Titus Andronicus
4. Why? - Good Friday
5. Deerhunter - VHS Dream
6. Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
7. Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
8. Rivers Cuomo - Can't Stop Partying (Solo Version)
9. Belle & Sebastian - Like Dylan In The Movies
10. Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains
11. Portishead - The Rip

Mux004: August 2007, the reissue

I'm working on Archetype, I swear.

Download or stream off drop.io.

1. Bloc Party - Like Eating Glass
2. Born Ruffians - I Need A Life
3. Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood
4. Weezer - El Scorcho
5. Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly
6. Destroyer - Painter In Your Pocket
7. Grizzly Bear - Knife
8. Joy Division - Transmission
9. The National - The Perfect Song
10. Do Make Say Think - A Tender History In Rust (Edit)
11. No Age - Every Artist Needs A Tragedy
12. Jay Reatard - Nightmares (Demo)

Mux002: June 2008, the reissue

I'm up early, so I have an excuse for this.

Stream or download at drop.io.

Tracks:
1. My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realize
2. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
3. The National - Lit Up
4. Jay Reatard - Nightmares
5. The Go! Team - Huddle Formation
6. No Age - Things I Did When I Was Dead
7. Cut Copy - Strangers In The Wind
8. Boris - My Machine
9. Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place
10. Brendan Canning - Possible Grenade
11. Rivers Cuomo - Lover in the Snow

The Best Mix Ever (as of July 15, 2009)

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Very flavor-of-the-year, but that's the beauty of it. Also, omitted "The Tourist" by Radiohead, which is my Favorite Song Ever but doesn't really fit anywhere.

Oh right, the occasion: Yet another drive to Chicago tomorrow for, among other things, the 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival. This should kick things off to a good start.

1. The National - Fake Empire
2. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
3. The Hold Steady - Sequestered In Memphis
4. Pavement - Cut Your Hair
5. Guided By Voices - Teenage FBI
6. Jay Reatard - Nightmares
7. No Age - Everybody's Down
8. Radiohead - Fog
9. The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
10. My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
11. Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened
12. Broken Social Scene - Cause = Time
13. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - In This Home On Ice
14. Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver
15. The Thermals - A Pillar of Salt
16. Wolf Parade - I'll Believe In Anything
17. Spoon - Finer Feelings
18. Rogue Wave - Endless Shovel

JDK's Favorite Music of 2008 Part III

Ranking any sort of art against another (here: music) is always arbitrary and trivial. But people love lists, and I've made up my mind. I cheated a bit and included a singles compilations that involves 2006 and 2007 cuts, as well as smushing two albums together simply because the band made both this year.

Thus:

1. Deerhunter - Microcastle (without Weird Era Cont.)
2. No Age - Nouns
3. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
4. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
5. Jay Reatard - Singles 06-07 / Matador Singles '08
6. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
7. Crystal Castles
8. Fleet Foxes
9. Marnie Stern - This Is It...
10. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster... / We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed

I'm still playing catch-up with a huge quantity of 2008 music, mostly culled from lists arranged by friends and, well, Pitchfork. Last year I didn't even give Spoon's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga a second spin after my initial listen, and now I can't believe I didn't put that in last year's top three. If there's any such revelation with the music I overlooked this year, I'll write something about it.

Otherwise, there's a gigantic post floating around in my head that breaks down all the music I liked this year and why I liked it, but since said massive post gains massivitity each day, I'm starting to dread such a task. Maybe a simple list will suffice for the four people that read this blog.