It seems that every 6 months I have to play catch up with songs I’ve been meaning to include on a mix for a while, just to clear the queue. This is one of those months. It also marks a year of doing these mixes, or maybe last month did that… look, this is a blog, don’t expect any fancy arithmetic out of me. Or simple addition.
There are a couple local bands in this mix that I’ve listened to for some time but never got around to including: The Movies and Demolisten-regulars and last-month Spaceland residents, Mezzanine Owls. Usually this is the part of the post where I go through the bands one-by-one, but even more frequently I am lazy, so instead here’s a quick plug of the new French Kicks album. It’s good. See, wasn’t that easy? It’s also their third ridiculously good album in a row (that makes a ’string,’ right?). And, barring a surprise rating from the arbiters of taste, are totally discounted (I’m predicting a rating in the 5-range from the Fork and in the 60%-range from the guys who didn’t bother to check the band lineup in their review of the last album). And while I definitely associate individual songs with each album, the consistency is such that you could easily confuse what was on what, much as one might look back and place “Like Spinning Plates” on Kid A instead of Amnesiac. But whereas those two albums were spawned from the same sessions, the Kicks’ albums are spaced apart at even 2-year intervals (throughout which there have been band lineup changes). “Abandon,” the album opener would have been the obvious selection for the mix, but “All Our Weekends” is probably my 5th favorite song from the album (yeah, it’s that good…), so it just had to be included.
[banner photo by me, from London]
June 2008 Mix
01 The Movies - Rock In The Slingshot
02 Oh! Custer - Post
03 Oranger - Crones
04 The Chameleons - Nostalgia
05 The Grace Period - Bartley Ride Armor
06 French Kicks - All Our Weekends
07 Shannon Wright - Everybody’s Got Their Own Part To Play
08 Saturday Looks Good To Me - Meet Me By The Water
09 Superchunk - Detroit Has A Skyline Too (acoustic)
10 Mezzanine Owls - Moving Ground
