Here’s the last mixtape of the year, a wintry one, made from a sealed, pre-recorded cassette I got for 99 cents at the record store. I taped over the cassette’s protection tabs and then I taped over the music and then I taped over the artwork.
I was feeling depressed, so I made a mixtape.
I’m still depressed, but now I have a mixtape.
The tape was only 33 minutes long, so it’s a short one.
Here’s the tracklist:
SIDE A
– Stereolab, “Come and Play in the Milky Night” (Demo)
– Wilco, “Impossible Germany”
– Kurt Vile, “Beach on the Moon (Recycled Lyrics)”
– Bruce Springsteen, “I’m On Fire”
– Solange, “Binz” (faded out after 45 seconds)
– Kenneth Patchen reciting “The Snow is Deep on the Ground” over Earl Sweatshirt’s “Riot!” instrumental (listen here)
SIDE B
– Low, “What Part of Me”
– Clinic, “Porno”
– Deerhunter, “Agoraphobia”
– Beach House, “Astronaut”
– Van Halen, “Cathedral”
You can listen to the mix on Spotify or on Apple Music.
I made 13 mixes this year — if you want, you can listen to a big 10-hour playlist of them all.
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