2019 End of Year Mixtapes

[LetMeSleep]

Spenno's mix. To be blunt, jazz is not my thing. I did get through this whole mix though.

4 made to my listen again and possibly investigate playlist. Dorothy Ashby, Oneohtrix Point Never, Stian Westerhus and the John Barry Ipcress File soundtrack.

[LetMeSleep]

1. Billie Eilish -Wish You Were Gay
2. Grimes – So Heave I Fell Through the Earth
3. Glass Animals & Denzel Curry – Tokyo Drifting
4. Big Thief – Forgotten Eyes
5. Beck – Saw Lightning
6. Desert Sessions – Chic Tweetz
7. Sturgill Simpson – Sing Along
8. Pixies – Daniel Boone
9. Toro y Moi – Ordinary Pleasure
10. Kim Gordon - Get Yr Life Back
11. Bon Iver – Jelmore
12. Fennesz – Agora
13. Gary Clark Jr. – Pearl Cadillac
14. Sigrid – Sucker Punch
15. Glen Hansard – I’ll Be You, Be Me


*I'll add to this, and rearrange. This is right now just from memory of new songs I know I listened to a lot this year.

I had heard a few of these albums before(Bon Iver, Pixies, SS, Desert). I'll revisit SS and maybe play the Beck and Big Thief albums. Gary Clark Jr wasn't too bad either.

[Birds in Hell]

Spenno's mix. To be blunt, jazz is not my thing. I did get through this whole mix though.

4 made to my listen again and possibly investigate playlist. Dorothy Ashby, Oneohtrix Point Never, Stian Westerhus and the John Barry Ipcress File soundtrack.

Thanks for the listen, LMS!

[bodysnatcher]

Spenno's mix. To be blunt, jazz is not my thing. I did get through this whole mix though.

4 made to my listen again and possibly investigate playlist. Dorothy Ashby, Oneohtrix Point Never, Stian Westerhus and the John Barry Ipcress File soundtrack.

Thanks for the listen, LMS!

speaking of jazz... Spenno, did you hear the SEED Ensemble album, "Driftglass"?

[Brett]

Varis/Higgs, I've given your mix a listen through, and it's very much in your style. I didn't like every song, but it was pretty enjoyable overall. Chastity Belt, Haiku Salut, Wand, Thelma Plum, Georgia Maq, Joseph Shabason, and Strand of Oaks were my favorites. I thought that Shabason's name and compositional style seemed familiar; turns out I had looked him up a while back as Sandro Perri opened for him last year at his album release show. They've got some aesthetic similarities that you might enjoy.

[Higgs]

Thanks for listening Brett. And it made my day to learn that someone thinks I have a style! Sweet!

I'll check out the recommend soon. I've only listened to snc's mixer so far but plan to listen to all as I am off on holidays next week. Yay!

[Brett]

I gotta say, I'm not as big into Spenno's mix as I have been in years past. It's still pretty good, but does lean a bit heavily into stuff that feels like more orthodox jazz, and sometimes that's not my cup of tea. There were a few highlights that stood out, though: Oneohtrix Point Never, Django Reinhart, Stereolab, and Jakob Bro.

[Birds in Hell]

I gotta say, I'm not as big into Spenno's mix as I have been in years past. It's still pretty good, but does lean a bit heavily into stuff that feels like more orthodox jazz, and sometimes that's not my cup of tea. There were a few highlights that stood out, though: Oneohtrix Point Never, Django Reinhart, Stereolab, and Jakob Bro.

I love it but I do appreciate that a 13 minute, early 70s Freddie Hubbard track right in the middle of the mix may be tough going for others!

Thanks for the listen Brett, I'm looking forward to checking out your mix in the coming days as our tastes generally have at least some common ground.

[LetMeSleep]

Snc mix. This is usually the highlight mix for me as it usually holds the greatest discoveries. I had previously checked out Weak Signal so that was nice to hear again and I’ll revisit that album. Dark Blue and David Nance popped up again although the production on the Nance is disappointing.

Big Thief and Endless Boogie were damn nice and the Bonnie Prince Billy got through the gap. I really need to catch up on him as the last I really heard was the Cairo Gang in 2010.

Thanks for the playlist.

[tragabigzanda]

[super nintendo chalmers]

Thanks for the listens all. One the "perks" of being shackled to a desk again is being to post a bit more here.

Happy New Year and please stay safe Down Under, x.

[i got bugs]

Finally got a chance to dig into sncs Spotify mix n it's great as always

That endless boogie song is literally endless

[Brett]

I had a feeling that I wasn't going to like ridleybradout's mix all that much, as our tastes have not aligned much in the past. Unfortunately, I was correct. The majority of the mix sounds like something that you would hear playing over the PA in a department store. That said, there are a few bits that I found appealing: The National, Thom Yorke, Mark Ronson w/ Angel Olsen, portions of the James Blake song, and Wilco. Overall, it's not my thing, but thanks for the insights, Brad.

[Strat]

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5LhvT ... u5mU9jNJWe

01. Strand Of Oaks - Weird Ways
02. Better Oblivion Community Centre - Didn't Know What I Was In For
03. Soccer Mommy - Be Seeing You
04. Jenny Lewis - Red Bull and Hennessy
05. The Twilight Sad - [10 Good Reasons for Modern Drugs]
06. Craig Finn - Blankets
07. Laura Stevensen - Value Inn
08. Black Belt Eagle Scout - Loss & Relax
09. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Read My Mind
10. Japanese Breakfast - Essentially
11. Chris Forsyth feat. Rosali - Dream Song
12. Ex Hex - Rainbow Shiner
13. Lucy Dacus - Forever Half Mast
14. WAAX - FU
15. Pixies - Daniel Boone
16. Tyler Ramsey - A Dream of Home
17. Lana Del Rey - the greatest
18. Alice Skye - I Feel Better But I Don't Feel Good
19. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Bright Horses

This was fantastic, sir. LOVED "Dream Song". What a track. All the way through, some great stuff here that I had yet not heard.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Here's a link to mine:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4yOnE ... 56_8oJANMw

Note, my mixtape isn't in any listening order. It's just a collection of my favorite songs of the year. Sorry, I got lazy

[LetMeSleep]

This was fantastic, sir. LOVED "Dream Song". What a track. All the way through, some great stuff here that I had yet not heard.

Cheers Strat. Higgs alerted me to that Chris Forsyth album. It's long but enjoyable.

Lots of good songs last year, not too many top albums though.

[LetMeSleep]

"Disc" One
1. Bon Iver - "Hey, Ma"
2. Gwei-lo - "KY"
3. Marc Codsi - "Encounters II"
4. Siskiyou - "Temporary Weakness"
5. Some Became Hollow Tubes - "Another Bad Subplot About a Boy's Search for His Father"
6. Land of Kush - "Broken Maqams"
7. Fly Pan Am - "Bleeding Decay"
8. Marla Hlady & Eric Chenaux - "Refuge du Domaine de Gaspé 1"
9. Lungbutter - "Intrinsic"
10. Sandro Perri - "Wrong About the Rain"

This was a damn nice listen, I really enjoyed the first half of disc 1. I'll check out more from Gwei-lo, Siskiyou, Some Became Hollow Tubes (hey they're on my old label Gizeh Records. check the link for more Gizeh releases). Fuck me, Fly Pan Am took a turn.

https://gizehrecords.bandcamp.com/album ... el-sampler

[Brett]

Oof, now I feel kinda bad for not really getting into your mix, LMS. Anthemic indie rock stuff doesn't often do it for me, especially in such profusion. I do need to go back to it and see if I can suss out any highlights, though.

I'm glad you're liking what you've heard so far. Gwei-lo were an unfortunately short-lived group from the late '90s. They put out a couple collections of b-sides and stuff in 2019. Pretty much everything they ever recorded can be heard here: https://thejohnsonsound.com/gwei-lo/.

Thanks for that link to the Gizeh comp. I've been thinking about checking out some of their other stuff. I've liked a few Nadja and Aidan Baker releases in the past.

[LetMeSleep]

No worries, Brett. Most of my listening this year was pretty conservative.

I listened to Plat's and the Fiona Apple, Elvis, Wet and Hop Along tracks were nice. I listened to Maggie Rogers when it came out and there's definitely something there but it isn't sticking.

[Anders]

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5LhvT ... u5mU9jNJWe

01. Strand Of Oaks - Weird Ways
02. Better Oblivion Community Centre - Didn't Know What I Was In For
03. Soccer Mommy - Be Seeing You
04. Jenny Lewis - Red Bull and Hennessy
05. The Twilight Sad - [10 Good Reasons for Modern Drugs]
06. Craig Finn - Blankets
07. Laura Stevensen - Value Inn
08. Black Belt Eagle Scout - Loss & Relax
09. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Read My Mind
10. Japanese Breakfast - Essentially
11. Chris Forsyth feat. Rosali - Dream Song
12. Ex Hex - Rainbow Shiner
13. Lucy Dacus - Forever Half Mast
14. WAAX - FU
15. Pixies - Daniel Boone
16. Tyler Ramsey - A Dream of Home
17. Lana Del Rey - the greatest
18. Alice Skye - I Feel Better But I Don't Feel Good
19. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Bright Horses

Thank you. I listened to the Spotify-lists listed in this thread, and with all respect to the others, this one stood out to me. Will check it out properly tomorrow.