Category: Sounds

• July 26, 2022

  July 2022 Mix

  I’ve been on this big Beth Orton kick all month. Central Reservation holds up about as well as anything and I found it more than a little disconcerting to think it’s twenty three years old now. That’s insane. I sort of quit on Orton after Comfort of Strangers because it sounded so dull, but I…
• June 10, 2022

  June 2022 Mix

  My four year-old son discovered the label maker. Our front door is labeled “HOUSE” now. This mix is way too long but I haven’t been able to figure out what to trim. I’m in love with the chorus of the Julia Jacklin song “Lydia Wears a Cross”: I’d be a believer if it was all…
• May 9, 2022

  May 2022 Mix

  I grew up listening to the marching band version of “Hang on Sloopy,” came to love The McCoys’ version, and was charmed by the cover version by GOLDEN that leads off this mix. It’s plaintive and warm and full of love. There’s more twang on this than most of my mixes. Back in the 90s,…
• May 9, 2022

  April 2022 Mix

  I’m lazily loyal to Spotify even though Joni Mitchell’s desertion has left gaping holes in my playlists. Come back, Joni! You are not saving the world by denying me “Clouds”! Anyway, here is my latest playlist, 040622.