Friday, January 29

OCULAR

Left-click [HERE] or [HERE] to download the OCULAR mix.

TRACKLIST ---

01 THE TWO SIDES OF MONSIEUR VALENTINE spoon
02 JUST BEFORE OUR LOVE GOT LOST astropol
03 TAKE IT FROM ME gold sounds
04 NOVEL TWO cyrus (the great)
05 IGNITES why we run
06 COME AND GONE gabrielle papillon
07 EASTBOUND delaney davidson
08 RAIN reverieme
09 ISOLATION alberta cross
10 THE FIRST TRY marble sounds
11 BIRDS coldplay
12 RUN elsa & emilie
13 PHOTOGRAPH weezer
14 WONDERFUL WINTER MORNING hymns from nineveh
15 BABY WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES sweet spirit
16 HERE’S THE SITUATION jesse malin
17 SLEEPLESS NIGHTS BLUES jonas carping
18 THE SONG THEY PLAY EVERY NIGHT little green cars
19 SAD SONG the cars
20 SPECTRE radiohead
21 24 lana del rey
22 THE CLASS OF ‘86 brideshead
23 WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS LOVE will young

Thursday, January 14

STALINGRAD

Left-click [HERE] or [HERE] to download the STALINGRAD mix.

TRACKLIST ---

01 SPACE ODDITY david bowie
02 MESS AROUND cage the elephant
03 POISON gin wigmore
04 PLEASE DON’T CALL chris isaak
05 TOO BAD lilly hiatt
06 DEAD LOVE dogheart
07 DON’T YOU WAIT cloves
08 COMES TO AN END sydney eloise & the palms
09 INSIDE JOB practical lovers
10 LIGHT FROM A DEAD STAR [demo] lush
11 SUFFRAGETTE CITY david bowie
12 LMHY plaitum
13 THIEF the fratellis
14 PARADIS PERDUS christine and the queens
15 BOUM BOUM BOUM mika [w/l’orchestre symphonique de montreal]
16 FOG jabberwocky
17 ODELL lowland hum
18 YOU’RE STILL HAUNTING ME jon derosa
19 BOYS CAN NEVER TELL shovels & rope [w/j. roddy walston]
20 ALONE / WITH YOU daughter
21 HEROES david bowie

Friday, January 1

BEST OF 2015 (PART I)

Of the 383 songs that appeared on the 18 "regular" P of A mixes of 2015, here follow the 42 that most successfully insinuated themselves into my oft-soporific, oft-sentimental, oft-sodden, oft-pseudo-sociopathic subconscious. 

[Note:  Neither the songs nor the mixes appearing here are listed in order of preference, and -- technically-speaking -- not all of the tracks appearing here were released in the year 2015.]

Left-click [HERE] or [HERE] to download the BEST OF 2015 (PART 1) mix.

TRACKLIST ---

01 BABY WHAT’S WRONG? whitehorse
02 LET’S GO ALL THE WAY citizens!
03 SUMMER munroe
04 A PART OF THIS asaf avidan
05 BATTLES hudson taylor
06 THE WORLD ENDER lord huron
07 MAYBE ON THE MOON aaron
08 DREAM imagine dragons
09 ROOMS ex cops
10 LITTLE SEA sea of bees
11 A SIMPLE SONG stars
12 SOME THINGS LAST FOREVER many things
13 NORTHERN LIGHTS elias
14 JOHNNY JOHNNY part-time friends
15 THE HARROWED AND THE HAUNTED the decemberists
16 IN MY SHOES fiction plane
17 TAKE ME ON THE FLOOR the veronicas
18 OVER THE BOW jenny owen youngs
19 WHO WEARS THE PANTS?? soko
20 BORN TO DIE lana del rey

Left-click [HERE] and [HERE] to go to former BEST OF mixes.

BEST OF 2015 (PART II)

Left-click [HERE] or [HERE] to download the BEST OF 2015 (PART II) mix.

TRACKLIST ---

01 LOVE IS BLINDNESS jack white
02 PANTS ON FIRE the smittens
03 TRUE ROMANCE citizens!
04 WRONG the airborne toxic event
05 PINK & BLUE the van jets
06 CARRY ON cœur de pirate
07 LIVE YOUR LIFE tom degrazia
08 DAD TOLD ME hello saferide
09 A THOUSAND TIMES oh honey
10 WE SINK of monsters and men
11 YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL [dh orchestral] lana del rey
12 BURN TOGETHER many things
13 I FORGED THE BULLET zachary cale
14 ECHOES painted palms
15 DOWN TO THE WATER jonas carping
16 PAUL IS ALIVE el vy
17 DOMINO duke special
18 SHADES OF BLUE aaron
19 WHY WOULD I NOW? the decemberists
20 DEAR IRONY whitehorse
21 WE OWN THE WORLD (TODAY & TOMORROW) fawn and rabbit
22 WELCOME dan bern

2015: 35 ALBUMS


On this day, it gives me great pains to say that the year 2015 has officially met its inevitable end. Still, incapacitated by nostalgic sadness as I am, I feel quite confident in positing that the year 2015 will ultimately go down in history as... "the year 2015." Whatever the Rapture-is-Upon-Us-People may mumble while speaking in tongues and building their bomb shelters -- Leviticus and Revelation swirling about them like so much unholy smoke -- one year tends to play out pretty much the same as the one that came before it and the one that will come after. All things considered: not such a catastrophous, Chicken Licken-clinging concept to wrap one's head around.

As I did in December 2014, I felt compelled in the waning days of 2015 to compile an alphabetical list of some of my favorite albums from the past annum. These were the albums that had me snapping my brittle, arthritic fingers and tapping my egregiously-fungusy feet. (Not to mention engaging in some spectacularly-miscalculated dancing.)

To see if they have a similar effect on you, simply left-click this boldly-bracketed-thing right -->> [HERE].

[PLEASE NOTE: These albums are not available for download from my site. With the record companies and RIAA forever-attempting to stick people like me in the stocks and present us as a collective, scarlet-lettered scourge, it's the best I can do to offer the mixes I do. That said, if you should indeed decide to do the left-clicky- thing on the boldly-bracketed-thing, you will find links to all of the artists -- as well as a mini-little-flaggy-thing that will provide you invaluable and fascinating insight into their places of origin.]