The past few months have been one of transitions, milestones and the loss of a dear friend who had been bedridden for nearly 20 years. My parents are finally retiring, looks like my sister found her mate, and then there are my children’s little victories from riding a bike without training wheels, losing the first tooth, swimming without the floaty, and actually making it to the toilet to drop the kids off. This mix starts off as a slow burn and transitions into something more inspired trying to intimate the idea of moving on or more generally facing change. Hope there's something y'all enjoy.
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Mappe Of / Cavern's Dark
Love the delicate guitar work against the droning production and vocals. A fitting backdrop for the picture of the abandoned home.
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Mappe Of is the stage name of Tom Meikle (born February 26, 1993), a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, and avant-folk musician from Whitby, Ontario. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Bonobo (feat. Rhye) / Break Apart
Third showing for Rhye, this time courtesy of Bonobo. Such striking vocals. Can’t believe Sade’s voice also belongs to a man.
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Simon Green, known by his stage name Bonobo, is a British musician, producer and DJ based in Los Angeles. Bonobo's first album - 2000's Animal Magic - was released via Tru Thoughts before being picked up by Ninja Tune. It announced him as a serious talent; able to bring a musician's edge to electronic music, with all the freedom that skill allowed. His subsequent albums for Ninja, Dial 'M' for Monkey and Days to Come, developed his sensibility, won him fans across the globe Read more on Last.fm more...
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Weyes Blood / Seven Words
A somber track with a whacked out video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWvmGwKiOe0
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Weyes Blood (originally Weyes Bluhd) is Natalie Mering, a musician from Philadelphia, PA, United States, and ex Jackie-O Motherfucker bass player. Her solo work is raga-inspired, psychedelic music, using guitar strings as basic sound material and sound effects as an instrument. Home-made one string bass stick used to produce low bell-like sounds out of an horror movie. Most tracks have vocals, usually strangely deformed through effect pedals. Track editing and cueing is kept to a minimum in the DIY Read more on Last.fm more...
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Perfume Genius / 17
This guy has been through a lot and 17 is as beautiful as it is disarming. If you’re at all into this, the album, Put Your Back N 2 It, is amazing from start to finish.
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Mike Hadreas, also known as Perfume Genius is a singer/songwriter from Seattle, Washington, US. Perfume Genius began when he moved from New York to his mother's home in Everett, WA. In these relatively isolated conditions, Hadreas felt a compulsion to make music and began composing fragile yet brutally honest songs on the piano. By 2008 he had set up a MySpace page and began offering his music there, along with similarly spare and evocative homemade music videos. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Sampha / (No One Knows Me) Like the Piano
Killer keys from Sampha. Thanks for the video Lindsay!
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Sampha is a singer, keyboardist and producer from South London, UK who is known widely for his collaborative work with SBTRKT, Jessie Ware, Drake, Kanye West, Solange, Koreless, Lil Silva, Katy B and others. His digital demo release Sundanza was released on 4th June, 2010 and his debut full solo EP Dual was released on 29th July, 2013 via Young Turks Records. As a record producer, Sampha has worked on and sang with Jessie Ware on the song "Valentine", The Unconscious State by London rapper H.A.S and "The Motion" by Drake. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Babeheaven (feat. Deem Spencer) / Your Love
Just a sweet combination - the swooning voice, a soft drum kit and love that rolling piano riff.
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Lorde / Liability
I was into her first album and this one got me again! Wondering how others feel about her. Does she belong in the Burnmix basement or is she an accepted popstar like HAIM?
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Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor (born 7 November 1996), known by her stage name "Lorde" (pronounced "lord"), is a Grammy Award-winning New Zealand singer-songwriter. She released her first EP, The Love Club EP, in March 2013, and her first single, Royals, in June 2013. Her debut album, Pure Heroine, was released on September 27, 2013, and was followed by Melodrama in 2017. She chose her stage name due to her fascination with "royals and aristocracy". Read more on Last.fm more...
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(Sandy) Alex G / Sportstar
Never knew anything about him before this. 24 year old with seven albums to his name.
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This name refers to multiple unrelated artists: 1. Alex Giannascoli---whose stage name is "Alex G" and was temporarily "(Sandy) Alex G"---is a multi-instrumentalist from Philadelphia that has studied at Temple University, serving as a member of The Skin Cells. In general, he works as a guitarist and singer. You can check out his Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/sandyalexg and his bandcamp at https://sandy.bandcamp.com/ 2. Alex G, now known as Alex Blue Read more on Last.fm more...
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Amber Coffman / All to Myself
My favorite track for a while. Dirty Projectors are a bit hit or miss for me, but this album is more accessible.
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Amber Coffman (born June 15, 1984 in Austin, Texas) is a singer-songwriter best known as the guitarist for the indie rock band Dirty Projectors. Her debut solo album "City of No Reply" is set for release in 2017. Read more on Last.fm more...
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The Japanese House / Face Like Thunder
This track held the number one spot up until three weeks before the mix was due. Their name keeps popping up, whether it’s playing summer festivals or touring with other bands like Babeheaven. Another talented 20 year old.
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The Japanese House is 24-year-old Londoner Amber Bain. Her debut EP Pools to Bathe In was produced with The 1975's George Daniel and Matthew Healy. She describes her music as "warm, dream-pop sounds that wash over the listener like you're standing in the ocean getting taken over by the waves". Bain released her debut album Good at Falling in 2019. Read more on Last.fm more...
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alt-J / In Cold Blood
This Is All Yours was a great album, but I still favor An Awesome Wave, and this reminds of the latter.
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Alt-J (sometimes stylised ∆) was formed when Gwil Sainsbury (guitar, bass), Joe Newman (guitar, vocals), Gus Unger-Hamilton (keyboards), and Thom Sonny Green (drums) met at Leeds, UK University in 2007. The band currently resides in Cambridge. Unger-Hamilton studied English Literature; the other three Fine Art. In their second year of studies, Newman showed Sainsbury a handful of his own songs inspired by his guitar-playing dad and hallucinogens Read more on Last.fm more...
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Perfume Genius / Slip Away
The man is transformed and you can hear it here.
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Mike Hadreas, also known as Perfume Genius is a singer/songwriter from Seattle, Washington, US. Perfume Genius began when he moved from New York to his mother's home in Everett, WA. In these relatively isolated conditions, Hadreas felt a compulsion to make music and began composing fragile yet brutally honest songs on the piano. By 2008 he had set up a MySpace page and began offering his music there, along with similarly spare and evocative homemade music videos. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Whitney / You've Got a Woman
Enjoying everything they’re putting out.
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Whitney is an American band from Chicago formed in 2015 by Max Kakacek and Julien Ehrlich, formerly of Smith Westerns, and Ziyad Asrar and Malcolm Brown, formerly of Touching Voids, as well as Will Miller and Josiah Marshall. The band released their debut album, Light Upon the Lake, in June 2016 and have toured internationally. The second album, "Forever Turned Around" was released on August 30, 2019. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Tash Sultana / Murder to the Mind
Yet another twenty something that writes and plays all the instruments. At 17 years old she was in a mushroom induced psychosis for seven months.
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Natasha "Tash" Sultana (born 15th June, 1995) is an Australian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Described as a "one-person band who brings new meaning to the concept of multi-tasking", they are best known for their 2016 single "Jungle", which was voted into third place in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2016. Sultana initially made a name for themself busking on the streets of Melbourne and having homemade videos go viral getting millions of views online. Read more on Last.fm more...
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BNQT / Hey Banana
Gave this supergroup a try and this odd ball was the only one that really shines
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There are two artists who use the name BNQT: 1) A British/American supergroup 2) A Russian punk band 1) BNQT is a British/American alternative supergroup. The group consists of singers Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses, Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand, Jason Lytle of Grandaddy and Fran Healy of Travis, plus Midlake members Eric Pulido (guitar), Joey McLellan (bass), Jesse Chandler (keyboard) and McKenzie Smith (drums). The band's debut album "Volume 1" will be released on Bella Union on April 28. 2) BNQT is a Russian punk band. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Portugal. The Man / Feel It Still
This one is at risk of already being played out. It’s everywhere.
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Portugal. The Man is an experimental indie rock band from Wasilla, Alaska (formed in 2004), but currenly based in Portland, Oregon, USA. The band's line-up currently consists of singer/guitarist John Gourley and bassist Zach Carothers (both formerly of Anatomy Of A Ghost), Gourley's wife Zoe Manville (backup vocals/percussion), guitarist Eric Howk, drummer Jason Sechrist, and keyboardist Kyle O'Quin. The band has released eight studio albums (the latest being 2017's "Woodstock") Read more on Last.fm more...
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Pumarosa / Cecile
Blondie with a Raveonettes feel.
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London five-piece, Pumarosa are a band who assembled from unexpected and varied quarters. Isabel met drummer Nick at a rehearsal for a new band in a rundown pub forming a guitar-and-drums Punk duo and began writing and rehearsing in the basement. After moving to a warehouse they met Henry, Tomoya and Neville and began a period of intensely hot rehearsals. In the summer of 2015, the band was offered a residency in the cavernous disused cinema of an Italian surrealist, situated within the cliffs of Calabria. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Alex Izenberg / To Move On
Some tempo and peppy keys are a good way to help anyone deal with having to move on.
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Alex Izenberg is a Los Angeles-based singer and songwriter. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Roger Neill / Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
A sweet rendition of Dylan’s tune. It’s from a film bearing the same name and is about the struggles of being an improv comedian. Highly recommended.
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