mixtape (december 2009)

Saints born being saints, parallel movies in slow motion
Asobi Seksu “Thursday”
Sigur Ros “Hjartao Hamast (Bamm Bamm Bamm)”
Real Estate “Basement”
Atlas Sound “Quick Canal”
My Bloody Valentine “Off Your Face”
Broadcast “I Found The End”
Animal Collective “Bluish”
Mazzy Star “Fade Into You”
Wilco “She’s A Jar”
Mercury Rev “Opus 40”
The Magnetic Fields “Queen of The Savages”
Neutral Milk Hotel “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea”
Broken Social Scene “5/4 (Shoreline)”

Begin responsibilities: As per the end of every decade, my wish is to be completely lost in the mist of presumably could-have-been dreams. The Atlas Sound song “Quick Canal”, the Deerhunter dude Bradford Cox’s nine-minute kraut-fantasy/dream-pop collaboration with Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier, really anchors this list. (Anyway, just got back from Taipei, and it’s kinda exciting how the Deerhunter album Microcastle/Weird Era Cont match the city scenes and the ache of transience they gave me as I haul my ass around its busy streets.) Or maybe this has got more than a bit to do with the Animal Collective song too, how Avey Tare sings “pulling me into another dream, a lucid dream”. It’s unerringly revealing too, from this mixtape’s second half, that I am still so hung up on my favorite music from the decade before.