Mix #20

I made this playlist at the end of the year, but got a bit delayed.

Mix #20

Newish things - Just Mustard, Sauna Youth, Sinead O'Brien, Adwaith, India Jordan, The Guest (BCNR connect), Kali Uchis, Giant Swan, Shanti Celeste (this is probably the level that these playlists can max out, techno don't feel right in amongst other stuff), Shopping, Weeping Icon, Peter Ivers and Shygirl.

Old charms - Bjork, Funkadelic, Liquid Liquid, Iggy Pop, Mount Kimbie, Current 93, Shellac, Rupa (new to me though), Elvin Bishop, Stereolab and Brian Eno with David Byrne.

Boris Nikolaevich Ermolaev

New Years in Cornwall seems like a long time ago, but other things I've been up to are the Straw Bear Festival in Whittlesey, visiting Sofia for the first time (sadly no kukeris for us). I cried to Little Women, watched the mentile and not the classic I was excpecting El Topo, sang at The Karaoke Hole, went to NME Awards and headed to Glasgow to see wondrous Angel Olsen.

Mix #18

This has ended up been really long. 

Mix # 18

Returns from Neil Young, Chromatics, Iggy (not sure about all the songs mind), Sheer Mag, Richard Dawson, Girl Ray, Angel Olsen (this one is particularly brilliant), Grimes ("and I like it like that"), Anna Meredith, LDR and Holly Herndon. 

Oldies from Frank Ocean, Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Broadcast, Slint, Roy Orbison, The Cramps, VU and Delta 5. 

Elsewhere, I've been slow to the Nao album, but this song is so good, Koffee, Squid, Robert Wyatt - sidenote check this cover from Squid, Haruomi Hosano, Pavement's cover of Bunnymen, Mort Garson, Silver Jews (I've heard two covers of "Trains Across The Sea" in the last month, rest in power DCB) and have been mildly obsessed with "Baby" by Donnie & Joe Emerson this summer gone. 

Castells, Tarragona © Reuters

Summer is most definitely gone. I spent the ends of it camping in 30mph winds in Dorset, sleeping in an English Heritage site overnight without a tent (aka my first microadventure), bowling around End of the Road festival, clubbing in Berlin and scoping out Millennium Mills as part of Open House London. 

I also went here and nearly threw up, but I think that's the appropriate reaction. That article linked is a good and interesting read. 

The photo above reminds me of Guy Bourdin, would like to visit this festival.