December saw me discovering witch house (Salem), wondering why I’d all but ignored LCD Soundsystem for the last five years and remembering how awesome Titus Andronicus’s last album was.
It also saw me getting a full version of Ableton Live, with which I hope to improve on my DJ/producer skills (of which I have almost none, but hey), so for that reason you can listen to little bits and pieces of all these songs as a DJ mix (with admittedly poor transitions at times; working on it).
This month’s list is large because time kind of dragged on and on. Probably because I’m counting down the days until I move to Nashville. But hey, a lot of good music came out this month, so that is cause for celebration! If anything on here isn’t due to a new release, it’s due to me just now getting back to a release or two that I’ve been meaning to enjoy more (like Local Natives, Freelance Whales and Surfer Blood).
Four Tet – “Love Cry” (There Is Love In You)
Mumford & Sons – “Little Lion Man” (Sigh No More)
Frightened Rabbit – “The Loneliness and the Scream” (The Winter of Mixed Drinks)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – “Red House” (Are You Experienced?)
Anais Mitchell – “Wedding Song (feat. Justin Vernon)” (Hadestown)
Broken Bells – “The High Road” (Broken Bells)
The Chieftains – “La Iguana (feat. Lila Downs)” (San Patricio)
Titus Andronicus – “A More Perfect Union” (The Monitor)
First Aid Kid – “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song” (Drunken Trees EP)
Local Natives – “Airplanes” (Gorilla Manor)
Liars – “Scissor” (Sisterworld)
The White Stripes – “Icky Thump” (Under Great White Northern Lights)
Freelance Whales – “Generator ^ Second Floor” (Weathervanes)
Surfer Blood – “Swim” (Astro Coast)
Surfer Blood – “Take It Easy” (Astro Coast)
Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses – “Bluebird” (Roadhouse Sun)
Manchester Orchestra – “100 Dollars” (Mean Everything to Nothing)
Manchester Orchestra – “I Can Feel a Hot One” (Mean Everything to Nothing)
Deftones – “Diamond Eyes” (Diamond Eyes single)
The Dillinger Escape Plan – “Farewell, Mona Lisa” (Option Paralysis)
Silversun Pickups – “Growing Old is Getting Old” (Swoon)