Cayucas / Cayucos

Slotted in first very early, just a great song.

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Cayucas, previously Oregon Bike Trails, is an American indie pop band from Santa Monica, California. The group includes Zach Yudin, his twin brother Ben Yudin on bass, Banah Winn on keyboards, Casey Wojtalewicz on drums, and Christian Koons on guitar. The band signed to Secretly Canadian in 2012. Zach Yudin, then a musician for nearly five years, posted his first song under the name "Oregon Bike Trails" on January 18, 2011.[He was associated with Father/Daughter Records in the early part of his career. Read more on Last.fm more...

Miner / Golden Ocean

Love the Beach Boys-esque outro on this.

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Miner is an indie folk-rock band from Los Angeles, formed around the husband/wife duo of Justin and Kate Miner, along with Justin's brother Jeremy, his cousin Amanda, and friends Justin Krook and David Schechtman. Read more on Last.fm more...

Mac DeMarco / My Old Man

New album. Closing in on 40 has me thinking deep thoughts on progeny and destiny. Safe to say "my old man" is one to look up to.

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Mac DeMarco is the antithesis to your stereotypical singer-songwriter. Disregarding the seriously somber moments, he replaces them with whimsical and youthful spontaneity, whilst retaining endearing and subtle commentaries. Promptly after leaving his Edmonton garage for Vancouver he embarked on a grand voyage of enlightenment and alcoholic debauchery. DeMarco’s a weird cat, cultivating an affinity for occult imagery, nudity and social satire. But Read more on Last.fm more...

Washed Out / It All Feels Right

Just love this tune. Great swells between verse chorus. "The feeling when it all works out" is a great one.

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Washed Out is Ernest Greene, a young guy from Perry, Georgia, USA who makes bedroom synthpop that sounds blurred and woozily evocative. There’s a sense of longing and distance in Greene’s somber, filtered vocals, but it’s what he does compositionally that makes Washed Out stand out. Backed by gently pulsing, Balearic-tinged disco, Greene’s voice takes on a new dimension. Reminiscent of groups like The Glass and Chromatics, Washed Out is the music to end your night with Read more on Last.fm more...

Yellow Days / Gap In The Clouds

Really love this track, especially the outro.

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Yellow Days is British singer-songwriter George van den Broek from Surrey. Read more on Last.fm more...

Real Estate / Talking Backwards

I've included them before, but this had to make the mix.

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Real Estate is a band from Ridgewood, New Jersey, United States, now based in Brooklyn, N.Y. The band has roots in the Garden State and they’re led by singer/guitarist Martin Courtney and feature guitarist Matthew Mondanile (the latter known to some for his work in Ducktails, Predator Vision, and The Parasails) as well as Alex Bleeker (side project: Alex Bleeker And The Freaks) on bass and Etienne Duguay (also of Predator Vision) on the drums. They Read more on Last.fm more...

The Lips / Trouble In Paradise

This was a YouTube find. Yes the video is too hipster for it's own good. Felt like a 2017 version of the Exile on Main St. house.

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There are multiple artists with the name The LIPS. 1) The Amsterdam trio of Lisa, Femke and Zeni. It was one of those gnarly nights... Three Amsterdam girls got tipsy, got crazy and got an idea: Let's be a girl band! Fantasizing about mid 80's New York chick groups and favorite body parts they decided they would christen themselves The LIPS. Then Lisa, Femke and Zeni started reaching out to the best people in the business; Grammy award wining engineer Phil Tan got on board. So did industry legend masterer Tom Coyne. Read more on Last.fm more...

Tame Impala / Feels Like We Only Go Backwards

This song has been rattling around in the "almost" pile for years, but it bubbled to the top for this mix.

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Tame Impala is a psychedelic music project of Australian musician Kevin Parker, who writes, records, produces, and performs. As a touring act, Tame Impala consists of Parker (guitar, vocals), Dominic Simper (guitar, synthesiser), Jay Watson (synthesiser, vocals, guitar), Cam Avery (bass guitar, vocals), and Julien Barbagallo (drums, vocals). Many of them are collaborators of fellow Australian psychedelic rock band Pond. Previously signed to Modular Recordings Read more on Last.fm more...

Here We Go Magic / How Do I Know

Another one that has been an also-ran but came in swinging on this mix. The totally great video sealed the deal.

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Here We Go Magic is an indie rock group which formed in Brooklyn New York, United States in 2008. Originally the solo project of singer/songwriter Luke Temple (vocals, guitar), the band has since expanded to include Kristina Lieberson (keyboards), Michael Bloch (guitar), Jennifer Turner (bass guitar), and Peter Hale (drums). Developed over a two-month period of stream-of-consciousness recording in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Luke Temple’s self-titled Read more on Last.fm more...

Camera Obscura / French Navy

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Camera Obscura is an indie pop band which formed in 1996 in Glasgow, Scotland. Currently the band consists of Tracyanne Campbell (vocals, guitar), Kenny McKeeve (guitar), Gavin Dunbar (bass) and Lee Thomson (drums). Keyboardist Carey Lander was a member of the band from 2002 until her death from bone cancer in 2015. The band was formed in 1996 by Tracyanne Campbell, John Henderson, and Gavin Dunbar and released their debut album Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi in 2001. Read more on Last.fm more...

Alvvays / Archie, Marry Me

This almost made my last mix, but feels better here. I kind of hate that the second verse vocals are slightly out of tune, but when it hits the second chorus all is forgiven.

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Alvvays is a dreampop band formed in Toronto, Canada in 2011. Reverb-drenched and bittersweet, Alvvays members Molly Rankin and Kerri MacLellan were childhood friends, who began playing music with Alec O'Hanley while in high school. Lead vocalist Molly Rankin is the daughter of John Morris Rankin from the popular Canadian folk family group the Rankin Family. Molly Rankin released a solo EP titled "She EP" in 2010 and then in 2011 formed Alvvays with MacLellan, O'Hanley, and new members Brian Murphy and Phil MacIsaac. Read more on Last.fm more...

The Apache Relay / Katie Queen Of Tennessee

Older song but new to me. Been getting a lot of play at 9 Newell Ct. Great video.

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The Apache Relay was an American folk-rock band based out of Nashville, Tennessee. The band consisted of Michael Ford, Jr (singer/guitarist), Mike Harris (guitar), Brett Moore (mandolin, organ), Steve Smith (drums), Kellen Wenrich (fiddle) and Ben Ford (bass and vocals). The band's name originated from a race-competition scene in the movie Heavyweights. The Apache Relay takes more long car rides than most bands. But only a portion of their car time Read more on Last.fm more...

The Marcus King Band / Jealous Man

Great guitar tone, great song.

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The Marcus King Band is an American blues rock band led by singer, songwriter, and guitarist Marcus King. Call him the next Duane Allman or Jimi Hendrix, but whatever you do, don’t call Marcus King a child prodigy. Sure, the guitar shredder’s talent shimmers with the same resonance as his heroes, but he’s been wielding an axe since he learned to talk – he started playing when he was 2. King was born into music, gifted with steel-string DNA and two generations of men before him who nurtured the boy’s musical nature. Read more on Last.fm more...

Rayland Baxter / Yellow Eyes

This was the first song I locked into this mix, but it's dropped down the batting order quite a ways. Still a great track.

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Rayland Baxter (stylized as rayLand Baxter) is an American alternative country musician from Nashville, Tennessee. He is currently signed to ATO Records. Baxter is the son of musician Bucky Baxter. It’s hard to pinpoint the moment that songs are born, the day casual hummers become singers or scribblers become songwriters. Rayland Baxter certainly can’t, and he wouldn’t want to. Though he grew up in Nashville to the sounds of his father’s pedal steel, he didn’t dream of being a rock star. Read more on Last.fm more...

Mandolin Orange / Wildfire

Another that's been on for a while. Lyrics are a critique on southern political/racial climates, struck a chord this year.

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Mandolin Orange is a folk duo based out of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The group was formed in 2009 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and consists of the group's songwriter Andrew Marlin (vocals, mandolin, guitar, banjo) and Emily Frantz (vocals, violin, guitar). Mandolin Orange has produced six albums of Marlin's original works of American roots music. Mandolin Orange’s music radiates a mysterious warmth —their songs feel like whispered secrets, one hand cupped to your ear. Read more on Last.fm more...

Joan Shelley / Where I'll Find You

A last minute find, seemed to close things down nicely.

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Joan Shelley is an American singer-songwriter from Louisville, Kentucky. Her warm and mellifluous voice evokes both the deep south and west coast, drawing from both old-time country and sixties folk. A talented songwriter and prolific performer, Shelley splits her time between solo outings and collaborations with other area musicians like Daniel Martin Moore and Joe Manning, with whom she issued the albums Farthest Field (2012) and Outside Stay Outside (2014) Read more on Last.fm more...