Five randomly selected, described:
- Ali Farke Toura - Mahini Me. A mellow, hypnotic Afro-blues thing. Perfect way to start a Monday.
- Dino Jr - Why. SKIP. Five minutes of Lou screaming "WHY? WHY DON'T YOU LIKE ME?" over feedback and pedal noise? Fuckka that shit.
- Elliott Smith - Coast To Coast. From the posthumous release, cobbled together from demos and unfinished tracks, "From a Basement On The Hill". I can't listen to these things without trying to figure out what state the song was in when he died. Like, why is the vocal on this buried so deep in the mix? Was the original recorded on some crappy cassette and the only way they could make it work was to fuzz it, bury it, and harmonize it? And why are people talking in the background?
- Wye Oak - Tattoo. I wish I knew the name of the tune their main melody so resembles. It is, or is very close to, something ancient and probably churchy. Oh well. Nice song anyway.
- Artie Shaw - Moonglow. A little 30's style big band clarinet jazz. Pretty.
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