Mux086: October 2011

Comfortably awaiting a download or stream.

1. Grinderman - Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man (feat. a 21-year-old Jack Kentala) (Grinderman 2)
2. Black Lips - Katrina (Good Bad Not Evil)
3. Metric - Gold Guns Girls (Fantasies)
4. Spoon - Me and the Bean (Girls Can Tell)
5. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Timorous Me (The Tyranny of Distance)
6. The New Pornographers - Challengers (Challengers)
7. Lykke Li - Dance Dance Dance (Youth Novels)
8. EMA - Breakfast (Past Life Martyred Saints)
9. Male Bonding - Bones (Endless Now)
10. The Mountain Goats - Jenny (All Hail West Texas)

For whatever reason, I'm rediscovering that Metric's Fantasies is an amazing album. Easily one of the best bands in the Broken Social Scene family, if that makes any sense.

Not that these muxes are trade secrets, but when I'm working out the sequence, it's pretty obvious what goes where if you check my Last.fm stats. If you're that kind of weirdo.

Rookies:
EMA

Mux064: November 2010

Download or stream via drop.io.

And it may sound silly, but I dedicate this mux to the recent death of Twin Cities rapper Eyedea, who was far too young to pass. Usually my first-of-the-month muxes only have 2010 music, but I put "Smile" as the final track, off Eyedea and DJ Abilities' 2009 underrated record By The Throat. It seems fitting, given that pretty much every mix I've given to a "new" friend has had "Paradise" off E&A on it.

1. Male Bonding - Year's Not Long
2. The Walkmen - Angela Surf City
3. The Arcade Fire - Empty Room
4. Titus Andronicus - Richard II
5. Deerhunter - Fountain Stairs
6. The National - Sorrow
7. Future Islands - Swept Inside
8. The Thermals - Not Like Any Other Feeling
9. Cee-Lo - Fuck You, BPD
10. Health - Nice Girls (Little Loud Remix)
11. No Age - Chem Trails
12. Eyedea & Abilities - Smile

Making their mux debut:
Cee-Lo
Future Islands
Male Bonding