2010 bombarded me with excellent songs. Here are 5 mixes, trying to make sonic sense of what I heard throughout the year:
Mix 1: The Warmth of Your Way (2010 Runners-Up Vol. 1)
01. Avi Buffalo - What's In It For?
02. Lower Dens - Tea Lights
03. Wye Oak - I Hope You Die
04. Phosphorescent - Mermaid Parade
05. Laura Veirs - Where Are You Driving?
06. Kurt Vile - Invisibility: Nonexistent
07. Sharon Van Etten - One Day
08. Tobin Sprout - Wedding Song
09. Andrew Cedermark - Hard Livin'
Mix 2: A Break In Time (2010 Runners-Up Vol. 2)
01. Twin Sister - All Around And Away We Go
02. Here We Go Magic - Collector
03. Cosmetics - Sleepwalking
04. Deerhunter - Desire Lines
05. MGMT - Flash Delirium
06. Casiokids - Finn Bikkjen!
07. Police Academy 6 - Fill In The Blanks
08. Spoon - Out Go The Lights
Mix 3: Dazzle Them All (Best of 2010 Vol. 1)
01. The Walkmen - Angela Surf City
02. Gauntlet Hair - Our Scenery
03. Boston Spaceships - Come On Baby Grace
04. Wild Nothing - Chinatown
05. Reading Rainbow - Always On My Mind
06. Ganglians - My House
07. Spoon - The Mystery Zone
08. Harlem - Friendly Ghost
09. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round And Round
10. Family Trees - Sleep Talkin
11. Dum Dum Girls - Pay For Me
12. Pineapple - Harvey
13. Harlem - Gay Human Bones
Mix 4: Food For The Gods (Older Songs Discovered in 2010)
01. Guided By Voices - If We Wait (1996)
02. Sonny Smith - Good Folks Bad Folks (2007)
03. Caravan - Love To Love You (1971)
04. Jeff Mangum - Sign The Dotted Line (2009)
05. Cosmos - Nude Metropolis (2009)
06. The Fresh and Onlys - Peacock and Wing (2009)
07. Guided By Voices - Hey Aardvark (1993)
08. Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk - 3 (2007)
09. Charlotte Gainsbourg - Le Chat Du Cafe Des Artistes (2009)
10. Manishevitz - Eiji (2007)
Mix 5: Great Are The Sounds (Best of 2010 Vol. 2)
01. Pill Wonder - Restless
02. Frightened Rabbit - Living In Colour
03. Woods - Suffering Season
04. Beach House - Zebra
05. The Bees - Silver Line
06. Gord Downie and The Country Of Miracles - Gone
07. The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
08. The War On Drugs - Comin' Through
09. Closed Cassette - Time Trials
10. Steve Mason - All Come Down
11. jj - And Now
12. Tobin Sprout - Fix On The Races
13. Midlake - Acts Of Man
Download Great Are The Sounds
What do you think? What did I miss? What else should I be listening to these last 3 weeks of the year?
As always, thanks for reading.
tk
What do you think? What did I miss? What else should I be listening to these last 3 weeks of the year?
As always, thanks for reading.
tk
Great lists!
ReplyDeleteI wish the first 2 mixes were available for download; even if they didn't make the official cut. These are some hot jams.
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