Somtimes you need to slow it down...
Over the course of the past year, I've found that I've needed to do this more often. This became more apparent as I geared up for my mix and discovered that my cupboard of Burnmix b-sides was filled with a bunch of depressingly slow or just plain depressing songs. I went with it, then, filled in the gaps with a handful of tracks from my past that would've otherwise never seen the light of day.
I’m sure there’ll be a rainy day around the corner where this mix will either fit the bill or leave you feeling a bit more soggy.
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FKA twigs / Water Me
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FKA twigs is a pseudonym of English singer, songwriter, producer and dancer Tahliah Debrett Barnett. Born January 16, 1988, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, she was formerly known as twigs. Named after the way her bones pop and crack; the part-Jamaican, part-Spanish singer now based in London, released a 4 track EP in December 2012, accompanied by their respective promo videos. Her father is Jamaican, and her mother is an Englishwoman of partly Spanish descent who used to be a dancer and gymnast. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Bat For Lashes / Laura
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Bat for Lashes is a pseudonym of Brighton, UK, based singer-songwriter / multi-instrumentalist / visual artist Natasha Khan (b. 25 Oct 1979, in Hertfordshire, England). She made her debut with single The Wizard (May 2006, She Bear/Drowned In Sound), following with albums Fur And Gold (Sept 2006, Echo), Two Suns (Apr 2009, Echo/Parlophone), The Haunted Man (Oct 2012, Echo/Parlophone) , and her latest album is The Bride (July 2016, Echo/Parlophone). Read more on Last.fm more...
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Antony & The Johnsons / Hope There's Someone
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Antony and the Johnsons are surely a mystery among the musical world. Very little is mentioned of the band's beginnings, except that British experimental musician David Tibet of Current 93 heard a demo and offered to release Antony's music through his Durtro label. The debut album, Antony and the Johnsons, was released in 2000. In 2001, Antony released a short follow-up EP, I Fell in Love with a Dead Boy, which, in addition to the title track, included a cover of "Mysteries of Love" Read more on Last.fm more...
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Stars / In Our Bedroom After the War
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There are several artists which use this name: 1. A popular indie pop band from Canada 2. A rock band from the United Kingdom featuring Syd Barrett 3. A rock band from Australia 4. A country rock band from Australia For the Japanese psychedelic group, please see The Stars 1. Stars is a Canadian indie pop band signed to the Arts & Crafts label. Originally formed in Toronto in 1998 by vocalist Torquil Campbell and keyboardist Chris Seligman, the band relocated to New York City and then subsequently to Montreal. Read more on Last.fm more...
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SomeKindaWonderful / Reverse
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SomeKindaWonderful is an American rock band from Cleveland, Ohio, consisting of Jordy Towers (vocals), Ben Schigel (drums), Justin Andres (bass and keyboard) and Sarah Dryer (backing vocals, percussion). They are best known for their song "Reverse", which was a #18 hit on the Billboard Alternative charts. Read more on Last.fm more...
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The Antlers / Hotel
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The Antlers are an indie rock band currently based in Brooklyn, New York, fronted by Peter Silberman. Initially, The Antlers was a solo project created by vocalist and guitarist Silberman immediately after he had moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 2007. Silberman wrote the first two albums, "Uprooted" and "In the Attic of the Universe" by himself and under his own name. Afterwards, he recruited Lerner and Cicci, becoming a collaborative group. The band recorded two EPs: "Cold War" and "New York Hospitals". Read more on Last.fm more...
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Youth Lagoon / 17
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Trevor Powers, the Idaho musician known as Youth Lagoon, has found what used to be destructive is now what gives him life. "I've never felt truly comfortable. It's this feeling of uneasiness that follows me everywhere I go because my thoughts never shut up," says Powers. "It used to exhaust me, but I've learned discomfort is invaluable. Safety makes us numb. It's when we find ourselves in territories we're unfamiliar with that we can really grow." Read more on Last.fm more...
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Low Roar / Nobody Loves Me Like You
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Low Roar is the project of Ryan Joseph Karazija /kə-RAH-ze-yah/ from San Franciso, California. Formerly of Audrye Sessions (Black Seal), Low Roar is currently based in Reykjavík, Iceland and signed to Tonequake Records Low Roar draws from ambient influences, especially on single, "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight," a sultry electro-washed song, recalling late 90's era Radiohead. The album takes the listener on Karazija’s unsettled journey conveying emotion with yearning choruses and haunting strings in simple Read more on Last.fm more...
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Jonsi / Kolnidur
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Jón Þór Birgisson, aka Jónsi, is the guitarist and vocalist for the Icelandic band Sigur Rós and also makes music with Alex Somers as Jónsi & Alex. His solo album, Go, was released in April 2010 Read more on Last.fm more...
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Sufjan Stevens / No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross
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Sufjan Stevens (Born July 1, 1975) is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Petoskey, Michigan. He is known for his lyrically focused and instrumentally rich songs that often relate to faith and family. He has enjoyed wide critical success in the United States. He is considered part of the folk revival through indie pop, but his influences are very broad, including experimental electronic music, the jazz of Vince Guaraldi, and the academic minimalism of Steve Reich and Philip Glass. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Perfume Genius / Take Me Home
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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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The New Basement Tapes / When I Get My Hands On You
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The New Basement Tapes is a collaboration between Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens of Carolina Chocolate Drops, Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, and Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons. Their album Lost on the River (2014) was produced by T-Bone Burnett and consists of songs based on recently discovered lyrics that Bob Dylan handwrote in 1967. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Mutual Benefit / Golden Wake
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Mutual Benefit is a music project created by American singer-songwriter Jordan Lee. The assemblage consists of various musicians gathered by Lee and has no concrete band line-up. Contributions have been made by musicians Marc Merza, Jake Falby, Cory Siegler, Virginia de las Pozas, Julie Byrne, Cameron Potter, George Folickman, Dillon Zahner, Andrew Morehart, Katie Pierce, Bradley Will, and Samuel Yager. After several self-released EPs, the album Love's Crushing Diamond was released in 2013. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Lo Fang / #88
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Elephant / Skyscraper
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There is more than one band under the name Elephant: 1.) Elephant is a band from London, made up of Amelia Rivas (vocals, keyboards) and Christian Pinchbeck (guitars, computers). -- 2.) Elephant is a Pittsburgh based band featuring members of Wings of Azrael. They released an EP and have a full length album available through iTunes entitled "Identities". The band also has another profile as Elephant (PA) due to the other bands named "Elephant". Read more on Last.fm more...
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Earlimart / Time For Yourself
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Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murray form Earlimart, an indie rock singer/songwriter duo based out of Los Angeles, CA. The name comes from Earlimart, CA, a town located between Los Angeles and Fresno, CA. The punk rock style that could be heard in the band's earlier albums quickly transgressed into dreamy Lo-Fi compositions on Avenues EP. Espinoza's hushed vocals bears heavy resemblance Elliott Smith who also worked with and was a personal friend of the band's. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Courtney Barnett / Depreston
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Courtney Barnett is an Australian singer/songwriter originally from Sydney, New South Wales; later moving to Hobart, Tasmania[/placeform] where she began performing music in 2006 before relocating to Melbourne in 2010. Barnett puts a lot of effort into sounding effortless. Her songs are wild and wooly and wordy, her lyrics plainspoken and delivered like she’s making them up on the spot. Barnett was originally a part of several bands, including Immigrant Union and The Olivettes before focusing on her solo work. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Reigning Sound / Starting New
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Founded by Memphis blues-punk legend Greg Cartwright -- a former member of the Oblivians, the Compulsive Gamblers, and '68 Comeback -- Reigning Sound fuse the hot-wired energy of garage rock with the deep emotional resonance of classic soul music in a manner that suggests a cross between the early Rolling Stones and the Sonics. Featuring Cartwright on vocals and guitar, Jeremy Scott on bass, Greg Roberson on drums, and Alex Greene on keyboards and guitar Read more on Last.fm more...
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Tina Dico / Someone You Love
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Tina Dico (born as Tina Dickow on October 14, 1977 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a singer and songwriter, inspired by artists such as Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. Tina Dico was born in Aabyhøj near Aarhus. At a very young age she was introduced to music by her father who owned a big hifi-system in their basement. After public school, she attended a music boarding school, and after that she went to high school. Music was still her passion and during her first years she performed with the cover band, Fester Kester. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Yo La Tengo / Ashley
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Yo La Tengo is an American indie rock band formed in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1984. Since 1992, the lineup has consisted of Ira Kaplan (guitars, vocals), Georgia Hubley (drums, vocals), and James McNew (bass, vocals). Despite achieving limited mainstream success, Yo La Tengo has been called "the quintessential critics' band" and maintain a strong cult following. Additionally, the band is renowned for its encyclopedic repertoire of cover songs both in live performance and on record. Read more on Last.fm more...
