the foolish way we live our lives: a mix for summer 2011

hello everyone,

i guess it's been a while since i've posted anything here. i've been hard at work on a lot of new projects that, if you are reading this blog, you probably have heard me talk about in person, like the new day sleeper album, a new band called the this many boyfriends club, and all kinds of other things i may not be at liberty to disclose. the point is i haven't had any time to post more original material on the site. in the interest of assuring my nascent (read: nonexistent) following that i am still alive, i made a little mixtape for the summer in the spirit of the "season's not long" tape i made last spring. put it on loud and stick your hand out the car window.

download "the foolish way we live our lives: summer 2011"

tracklist:

1. the sundays - summertime
2. the replacements - talent show
3. taken by trees - anna
4. the english beat - save it for later
5. carsick cars - zhi yuan de ren
6. atom & his package - atari track and field/new controller conspiracy
7. the 6ths - falling out of love (with you)
8. the dB's - she's not worried
9. the spinanes - reach v. speed
10. the for carnation - on the swing
11. tal bachman - she's so high
12. krill - 32 teeth
13. sleater-kinney - leave you behind
14. red house painters - over my head
15. 12 rods - girl sun
16. the national - gospel

cas kaplan - she imitates a frown

coffee cans and handfuls of change! borrowing instruments, breaking curfew and neglecting responsibilities! pirate radio-ready pillow-couched misanthropy! anti-love songs for conduction-deaf ears! guitars! software! whispers! shouts! menace! affection! affectation! ennui! habits! torn clothes and loose sheets! victorian novels and foreign fiction! refinement! vernacular! spinning head and robot fingers! an abundance of plastic! toes half-frozen and eyes half shut! elaborate crassness and circuitous metaphor! malaise! the common cold! melpomene! thalia! mneme! aiode!

another album about bad feelings, but this time you can dance to it!

download cas kaplan - she imitates a frown



tracklist:

1. fourteen fourteen
2. a little fucking candor
3. pray for lizzie
4. honeybee
5. as i remember you (hiding place part ii)
6. counting lashes (more of a brother part ii)
7. the most vainglorious game
8. modesty dictates
9. waking up

all songs by cas kaplan; "pray for lizzie" and "as i remember you" feature compositional input by justin k. wong and matt dowling; "as i remember you" contains a quotation from "stares into attics" by phil kaplan, roger stevenson, david greenberger and jon proudman

dedicated to the memory of BLUESTOCKINGS

aestatis - slow sparks

COMPOSED OF: samples, spare time

FREE OF: lyrics, obnoxious literary references, self-loathing

download aestatis - slow sparks



tracklist:

1. nothing stops her
2. sparks
3. don't let me lose you
4. sometimes i wonder
5. the turtle
6. sleepturner

sample credits: archers of loaf, the american analog set, anne briggs, aix em klemm, 12 rods, kow otani, junichi masuda, cowboy junkies, blonde redhead, broadcast, life without buildings, the dead texan, beijing angelic choir, james blackshaw, ava luna, beat happening, atom and his package, big star, eggstone, blink182, third eye blind, bruce peninsula, bjork

dedicated to the memory of trish keenan