Songs that caught my attention in November. Mostly dance music, which is funny because I don’t dance. Must be the wannabe-DJ in me. Also, the new Kanye record is wicked good after a listen or two.

Sorry there’s no 8tracks playlist this time. They changed some of their rules so I can’t grab music from “the cloud” any more. I tried to link to tracks or YouTube videos where I could.

1. Jon Hopkins – “Small Memory (Tuung remix)” (Seven Gulps of Air)
2. Robyn – “Dancing On My Own” (Body Talk)
3. Born Ruffians – “I Need a Life (Four Tet remix)” (DJ KiCKS: Moderat)
4. The Tallest Man on Earth – “Love is All” (The Wild Hunt)
5. Joker – “Snake Eater” (The Big Pink: Tapes)
6. Tobacco – “Sweatmother (feat. Height)” (La Uti)
7. TC – “Where’s My Money (Caspa remix)” (Get Darker Presents: This Is Dubstep 2)
8. Barn Owl – “Ancestral Star” (Ancestral Star)
9. Kanye West – “POWER” (My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy)
10. Kanye West – “Monster (feat. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj and Bon Iver)” (My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy)
11. Kanye West – “Runaway (feat. Pusha T)” (My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy)
12. Girl Unit – “Wut” (Wut)

Oh, hello there. How’s your family? I live in Nashville now. How’s that for crazy? Hopefully that whole moving-across-the-country thing is a good enough excuse for my lack of writing output. I’ll be back to it soon, I promise.

April was an exciting month, and not only due to my move. Not only did Jónsi, of Sigur Rós fame, release his first solo album, but I also got to go up to Amoeba Records in San Francisco to see him play a live acoustic set for Record Store Day a few days before my move. And the week before that, I was lucky enough to see Beach House perform to a sold-out crowd in town. A great goodbye from California, if I may say so.

The rest of the month was spent driving and visiting and driving and moving boxes and painting furniture and other such things, so the list is a bit more slim than usual. I hope you are enjoying your day as much as I’m enjoying mine.

1. Jónsi – “Go Do” (Go)
2. The Sight Below – “Splénétique” (It All Falls Apart)
3. Radiohead – “I Am A Wicked Child” (Com Lag: 2plus2isfive)
4. Wye Oak – “For Prayer” (The Knot)
5. Beach House – “Zebra” (Teen Dream)
6. Beach House – “Take Care” (Teen Dream)
7. Mimicking Birds – “The Loop” (Mimicking Birds)
8. The Tallest Man On Earth – “A Lion’s Heart” (The Wild Hunt)
9. The Hold Steady – “Slapped Actress” (Stay Positive)

And now you can listen to (most of) these tracks, because it’s just a good idea.