This mix started off with a slew of slow songs, which grew increasingly difficult to slot in with the stuff that came after. It ended up being a little front-loaded, tailing off into the quieter sounds towards the back. It also took me up until the last day to finalize everything. Normally I'm ahead of the game, ready with weeks to spare. Not so this time. Quite a few songs came to me via YouTube videos, so I'm including some embeds of those for your viewing pleasure. Hope there is something to enjoy for everyone.
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Hot Collars / Tongue Tied
This is the only track I've found by these guys, and there is nearly nothing about them on the internet. Fun little jam though.
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Michael Kiwanuka / One More Night
I'm not in love with his new album, a bit morose to listen to through and through, but this is a great track.
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Michael Samuel Kiwanuka (born 3 May 1987) is an English soul musician who is signed to Communion Records. He has been compared to Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Bill Withers, Randy Newman, Terry Callier, and Otis Redding, as well as Van Morrison and the Temptations. In January 2012, he won the BBC's Sound of 2012 poll. Kiwanuka grew up in Muswell Hill, London, the son of Ugandan parents who had escaped the Amin regime. He attended Fortismere School, leaving there in 2005 after completing his A-Levels. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Natural Child / Sure Is Nice
This psychedelic gem sure is nice. Toe tapper. A whole verse about sitting in the john with the door locked! That's the story of my life with two kids in the house...
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Natural Child is a garage/punk/pop band from Nashville, TN on the Infinity Cat label. http://www.myspace.com/naturalchildband Wez Traylor rocks! One day he ate pot brownies and called Zack and called Seth like 3 times telling them he wanted to start a band. Seth said cool but only if they toured and recorded all the time so that's what they're doing now. They have songs about eating drugs and white people and various other subjects. December 2012 Read more on Last.fm more...
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Coast Modern / The Way It Was
Late addition, fun pop song for the summer.
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Coast Modern is an American indie pop duo based in Los Angeles, California, known for their 2015 single “Hollow Life.” The duo consists of Luke Atlas and Coleman Trapp. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Trails and Ways / My Things
The last song onto the mix. The stop motion video below sealed the deal.
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Trails and Ways is a band from Oakland, CA, with a sound incorporating bossa nova, indie rock, disco and radio pop influences. The four bandmates, (Hannah and Keith on guitar, Ian on drums, and Emma on bass) cast off from the co-op houses at UC Berkeley in the depths of the great recession. They headed to live as far afield as Ceará in Brazil and Galicia in Spain before reuniting in Oakland to start the DIY bedroom recording project that became Trails and Ways. Read more on Last.fm more...
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The Cave Singers / Strip Mine
Damn, I love this riff. Stupid simple, and bordering on repetitive, but every time it comes on I feel myself swaying. Might be Cave Singers' third Burnmix appearance?
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The Cave Singers is an American folk trio from Seattle, Washington. Their music is folk for a rainy day: surprising, yet cozy, sparse, yet harmonious, pleasing yet torturous. Rising from the ashes of Pretty Girls Make Graves after its disbandment in 2007, former PGMG-member Derek Fudesco teamed up with Pete Quirk (of Hint Hint) and Marty Lund (of Cobra High) and began playing in the Seattle area. Soon after the band's conception, The Cave Singers signed with Matador Records on June 11, 2007. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Courtney Marie Andrews / Irene
Once you're past the obvious Joni Mitchell vibe of her voice, this is a hell of a catchy tune. Found myself humming it randomly and that's usually the sign that a song is going on my next mix.
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Courtney Marie Andrews (born November 7, 1990) is an American singer-songwriter originally from Phoenix, Arizona. She released her first widely distributed and breakthrough album, Honest Life, in 2016. From 2010 to 2011, Andrews was an auxiliary member of Jimmy Eat World, appearing on their 2010 album Invented and acting as their keyboardist and backing vocalist on the subsequent tour. Known for an eclectic style that incorporates elements of folk Read more on Last.fm more...
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Hiss Golden Messenger / Biloxi
Right in my wheelhouse, he's hit a few mixes recently, and for good reason. Love his voice, great melody, great story.
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Hiss Golden Messenger is a folk country band from Durham, North Carolina, led by MC Taylor. The mainstays of Hiss Golden Messenger are M.C. Taylor and Scott Hirsch, formerly of Ex-Ignota and The Court & Spark. Hiss Golden Messenger stretches out into the improv-rock territory of Traffic and the Grateful Dead and beyond. They signed with Merge Records in 2014. Major releases include Country Hai East Cotton (2009), Bad Debt (2010), Poor Moon (2011) Read more on Last.fm more...
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Francis and The Lights, ft Bon Iver & Kanye West / Friends
Found this by way of the video above.More Info from Last.FM
Francis and the Lights is an American musical project led by Francis Farewell Starlite. The term "and the Lights" refers both to the lights on a stage and pixels on a computer screen. Francis' music is in the pop / R&B category, characterized by a heavy use of electronically produced beats and melody and live vocal. In live performances, Francis' vocal is backed by his pre-produced tracks with the assistance of a DJ while he uses a synthesizer at times. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Maggie Rogers / Alaska
Heard this song via Pharrell on a Youtube video a few months back before it was released and it's just super catchy, had to include it. The video is worth a watch. I think his comments at the end are kind of lame, but watching him throughout, and more so watching her watch him is awesome. If the embed doesn't go to the right spot, scrub to 18:15.
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Maggie Rogers (born Margaret Debay Rogers on April 25, 1994) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and producer from Easton, Maryland. She rose to fame after her song "Alaska" was played to Pharrell Williams during a master class at New York University. Her songs "Alaska" and "Dog Years" placed numbers 64 and 173 on Triple J Hottest 100, 2016, respectively. After the Pharrell video went viral, several different record labels tried to sign Rogers. Read more on Last.fm more...
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AM!R / Dirty Whispers
Another late add, love the production. I really like the break that starts at 2:22 and the guitar floating in the background.
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Hazel English / Never Going Home
Hazy summer shoe gazer. Australian by way of Oakland is what I read.
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Australian-born singer/songwriter Hazel English moved to San Francisco, then Oakland, in 2013. When she met up with Jackson Phillips of the band Day Wave at the book store where she was working, the two hit it off and began collaborating. Their first three songs were posted on SoundCloud and became something of a sensation. English formed a band and played her first show opening for Craft Spells at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco in late 2015. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Lindsey Buckingham / Bleed To Love Her (Instrumental)
I've been watching the show "Roadies" and this plays over the opening credits of one of the episodes, as well as later on when Buckingham guest stars for a few minutes. Just a hypnotic rift. I actually had to record it off my TV as it doesn't exist anywhere else. Thus you'll hear some random noises over the guitar.
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Lindsey Adams Buckingham (born October 3, 1949) is an American guitarist, singer, composer and producer, most notable for being the guitarist and male lead singer of Fleetwood Mac. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2011, Buckingham was ranked 100th in Rolling Stone magazine's, 2011 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". The magazine described him as "one of the most under-valued visionaries in rock". Read more on Last.fm more...
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Donovan Woods / Leaving Nashville
This guy has a great voice and has been putting out some really nice stuff lately. This is a song about struggling as a singer in Nashville. Very spare, great melody, lyrics etc. Slow, but had to make it on.
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Donovan Woods’ latest album is an acoustic reimagining of songs we already know, and yet it reveals new shades of his acclaimed songwriting and spectral singing that leaves his listeners hanging on every word. Released on May 3 on Woods’ Meant Well label, The Other Way mines fresh meaning from the songs first collected on Both Ways, the Canadian artist’s 2018 release that scored him his first Juno Award (contemporary roots album) and a Canadian Country Music Award (roots album). Read more on Last.fm more...
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Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster / Laid Low
Singer from the Water Liars
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Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster is an American singer-songwriter from Oxford, Mississippi. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Gordi / Can We Work It Out (Piano Version)
I think this was the first song that made it onto the mix. Her voice is just so unique and cool. The actual recording is more upbeat and poppy. While it's also good, this is what I heard first and I think it has more punch.
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There are multiple artists with this name: 1. Gordi is a indie-pop singer/songwriter based in Sydney, Australia. 2. GORDI - ex-Yugoslavian rock / Heavy Metal band Raised in the small, farming community of Canowindra in Australia’s New South Wales, amongst a minuscule population of 2381, Payten learned to play piano and guitar in her house — with Billy Joel on near-constant rotation. She left the rural life in her late-teens to pursue a medical education in Sydney alongside her musical career. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Mitski / Your Best American Girl
Debated whether this one would get the nod, on the one hand, it feels like they're aping a Weezer song or something, but it just struck a chord every time I heard it and I couldn't leave it off.
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Mitski is Japanese-American indie singer-songwriter Mitski Miyawaki (born 27 September 1990 in Japan) based in Brooklyn, New York. She started her career while studying at the SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music, during which she self-released her first two albums: Lush (2012), and Retired from Sad, New Career in Business (2013). After graduating and moving to New York City, she released her third album, Bury Me at Makeout Creek (2014), on label Double Double Whammy. In 2016, Mitski released Puberty 2, her fourth album. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Hayes Carll / Good While It Lasted
A beauty, found via YouTube.
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Joshua Hayes Carll, known as Hayes Carll, is a singer-songwriter from The Woodlands, Texas (a Houston suburb). He is currently signed to Lost Highway Records. Carll has toured relentlessly in North America and abroad (performing over two hundred shows a year), founded a successful singer-songwriter music festival on the Gulf Coast of Texas, secured a record deal with Lost Highway Records, and has even seen his album Little Rock become the first self-released album to reach #1 on the Americana Music Chart. Read more on Last.fm more...
