mixtape (february 2010)

Storyboard of urban myths, the ascendance of doubt
A Sunny Day In Glasgow “The White Witch”
Real Estate “Green River”
Beach House “Zebra”
Frances Gall “Cet Air La”
Slumber Party “I Never Dreamed”
Grizzly Bear “Boy From School”
The Beach Boys “Surfer Girl (1967 rehearsal)”
Bart & Friends “Hounds of Love”
Belle & Sebastian “Put the Book Back On The Shelf”
Joan of Arc “Ne Mosquito Pass”
Luna “Bewitched”
The Sea and Cake “Jacking the Ball”
The Velvet Underground “I’ll Be Your Mirror”
Charlotte Gainsbourg “Me and Jane Doe”
Girls “Laura”
Cass McCombs “Dream Come True Girl”

All the time in the world for an unintelligible end: I had been boning up on a few bric-a-brac masterworks by prose artists whose writings – specifically, Don DeLillo’s Underworld, Paul Auster’s Moon Palace and Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland, to name three – seem to have such an inextricable bond to the ashen cities they write about. By that same token, this mixtape of interstate love songs are kind of appropriate.