Mixed Messages

As threatened/promised, this was a February-only affair. Stay tuned for SKULL CANDLE in the next couple days.

I thoroughly enjoyed the first Splendid Moments mix and it went wood on the internet to boot, so I made another: another year in California, another farm in the mountains, another hazy, gazy, lazy mix of sensitive whiteboy daydream music. This year I was even less focused on current releases as a result of an increasingly hippie lifestyle and my reliance on Pitchfork's Best New Music picks is embarassingly evident but I'm happy to report that the ends in this case justify the means. There really are some splendid moments, in the songs themselves which I obviously can't claim credit for, and also in the transitions. It flows, baby. There's also a misstep or two, but 2009 was a wabi sabi sort of year so roll with it.

Like SM2008, the mix skews toward the easy listening end of the spectrum. There's nary a club banger in sight, probably owing to the fact that I didn't set foot in a club all year. I did, however, play a party in the barn depicted on the "cover." The mix is available as a .zip of individual tracks or a single long .mp3 to suit your digital lifestyle.

Atlas Sound - Shelia
Lotus Plaza - A Threaded Needle
Bear In Heaven - You Do You
Flaming Lips - Silver Trembling Hands
Neon Indian - Mind, Drips
Washed Out - Feel It All Around
Junior Boys - Parallel Lines
Animal Collective - My Girls
Delorean - Seasun
Memory Tapes - The Green Knight
Small Black - Despicable Dogs
Best Coast - Sun Was High (So Was I)
Boris - Black Original
Wavves - Vermin
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Evil, With Evil, Against Evil
Volcano Choir - Still
Lucky Dragons - We Made Our Own Government
Banjo Or Freakout - Breath Out
Beach House - Norway
Mt. Eerie - Between Two Mysteries
Fourtet And Burial - Moth
Dan Deacon - Wet Wings
Kurt Vile - Beach On The Moon

For 2010, paisley. This is by no means a promise of more frequent updates, but it could happen...