1. Attraction Gear - Impossible Years –This song immediately set me up for a lot of great stuff to come on this disc, and sets a tone for floating dream sequence sounds. In my headphones, there are the sounds of maybe children and laughter interspersed that left me feeling slightly hallucinatory…cool song!

2. Dudley - Yeah Yeah Yeahs – this one has more fiber, and I feel the urgent suggestion that this disc doesn’t plan to necessarily intend to put me down for a nap right yet. I t fits here, but I don’t know if I would listen to it elsewhere.

3. Secret Meeting - The National – I like this one, it’s soothing, and the bass moves along under a nice rippling guitar, its got a very aquatic sound to me, and I like the image of it as a stream. At the end the staccato yells attract attention to more than just strumming/drumming going on. Nice.

4. Something is - Richard Hawley – Ahhh, now see this is so wonderful, I just finished a book set in Paris, and this one pulls up images of love and romance. Guy’s got one of those classic voices that makes the song sound classic, and the bridge sounds like the music playing when you’re skating on the lake during some fantasy Christmas. Best song so far, it’s rainy here today, and I’m going downstairs to kiss my napping wife because of this one!

5. a month of Sundays - the church The church have always had a fantastic ephemeral quality that makes them so well suited to this mix’s dreamtime mosaic, good to hear again, too.

6. Sensing owls - José Gonzales – this music sounds like it could have been created here, evoking sailing and soul searching while avoiding sounding clichéd. I can see myself enjoying this while out on the deck under a giant bowl of Milky Way and stars! I will be looking into finding more of this, smooth sailing mix so far.

7. Marx and Engels - Belle & Sebastian – Obnerites turned me on to this band, and it has been a nice addition to my musical annals. This one again calls up romance and feelings of love and affection, if not in a more traditional style. The piano sections are especially delicate and beautiful.

8. Kisses and fog - The Pines – This song is nice but the vocals remind me of some old hippy record my mom would play. Maybe a bit too Joni Mitchell for me, but it still fits respectively into the mix, even if I can imagine Forrest Gump’s hippy era girlfriend or the nun from Airplane singing it (actually, this image helps make it more enjoyable)

9. When I go deaf - Low – This song makes me feel like cracking a beer and digging up a good book to read, so drowsy and comfortable. Something about a slow cool duet that is folksy and beer/porch-inducing…Then BAMM the porch explodes, my steady girl by my side throws a leg over me and starts ferociously kissing me, her hands on my face, my hands in her hair, tearing fists grip clothes….we love one another, so hard, so much, that we settle back down and then as old people, we’re just rocking on a porch again… I’m available for video direction, BTW

10. Engine Driver - the Decemberists – This song is a conundrum, when I hear it on random, I skip it, but in this mix I like it. I love the lyrics, best part of the song.

11. Brown Eyes - The Red House Painters – Nice that it’s short, but it reminds me of some Damian Rice chick track, then again, the art of romance is the give and take, and I know I have seen my wife digging this song, so there you go!

12. Lungs out - Uzi & Ari – This one is good, but it’s got the definitive college radio sound going, I like the hushed quality up against straining and restlessness—it works, makes you feel the emotion of the song and makes it stick more than it would have, the end is a profoundly lush wall of sound. Decent.

13. You and Me Then - The Radio Dept – This track has a real futurist, shimmering challenging quality, a passing glacier as we sail through the mix on to one of my current favorite songs………..

14. Redford - Sufjan Stevens – This song and a couple of others on the Illinoise disc suggest of Eno and call to mind vivid cinematic images, and stark is the proper adjective for all of them. Haunting and majestic!

15. Broken Bones - House of Freaks – I’ll be honest, this may be the weak link on this disc, its fine, but its just filler, it seems. It’s not remarkable, though.

16. An Hour Before The Light - The Clientele – I’m drifting off on the magic carpet ride now, digging the retro vibe of this one, its not a great song, but within this mix it is perfectly at home, and so am I. Cool.

17. Students Carve Hearts Out of Coal - Destroyer This band may need checking into, FT has a track on his mix too, as I bet you know, and I like this one even more than the one he put in, The lazy sound is very relaxing, and makes me feel hip and arty…too funny!

18. Mad world - Gary Jules – A cool cover, I am huge fan of covers and different takes on a well known song, and this one has great arrangement. I love the big echoic flange on the chorus of “mad world”

19. Mild child - The Shins – The boomy sound here sounds so good in my big loft living room, its almost like I have the DSP set to concert, the sound is big, but still warm and comfortable, I am so deeply wrapped in this disc, the static/fuzz at the end is the fingers up and down of a massage just finishing…thanks!


This mix is perfect compliment to most mornings and some afternoons, I have especially enjoyed it today during one of the first steady rains of the wet season, cheaper than a massage and much more portable, In all honesty this mix gets the most plays on the stereo at home, where phones, the wife and life in general demands music that comes along, rather than demanding center stage. Awesome mosaic of good tunes, Thanks. I give it 9 massage therapists and an aromatherapy candle!