I got dealt a good hand this time 'round. Def my fave mix of the year...

Amy Winehouse - Valerie
Fruit Bats - So Long
Wilco - I Might
Eleanor Friedberger - My Mistakes
Okkervil River - Your Past Life as a Blast
WU LYF - Heavy Pop
Ikebe Shakedown - No Answer
Fool's Gold - The Dive
Blu - Since
Kanye West & JAY Z - Otis (feat. Otis Redding)
Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Two Against One
Little Dragon - Please Turn
Cults - Oh My God
Mr. Little Jeans - The Suburbs (Arcade Fire Cover)
James Drake - Wilhelm's Fucking Best
Washed Out - Before
Austra - Lose It
Shabazz Palaces - Swerve... The Reeping of All That Is Worthwhile (Noir Not Withstanding)
The Cool Kids - Summer Jam (feat. Maxine Ashley)

As a little birthday treat to myself, my favorite song of the moment, maybe even the year. This new Horrors album is a straight-up statement. Darkly beautiful and refined. This one song hints at just about every stage of the Cure's career.

When those horns kick in, ooo-we! I am adrift... and then I reemerge to a timeless post-punk riff that whips me around a solitary, moonlit, ocean cliffside highway. Endless blue.



Download the track here.