Various Artists - Someplace You Cannot See (2024)

This is a mix that I made when I was really, really going through it, probably in late April of last year. Unlike the last mix I posted, this one I really put some time into, piecing it all together into two suite-style, 46-minute sequences in Garageband over the course of a few days. It's pretty depressing, obviously, but I was in desperate need of an outlet, and it's definitely one of the best mixes I've ever made. There's a ton that I could write about why I chose each track on here, but y'all have already heard enough about my grief, so I'll just let you enjoy it however you like.

(To be clear: this is two 46-minute tracks.)

Safely floating away

My lantern dim

With a wick I didn't light

I never even asked for light

Includes songs from:

Michael Stearns - Floating Whispers (1987)

Andy Partridge & Harold Budd - Through the Hill (1994)

David Torn - What Means Solid, Traveller? (1996)

Lullaby for the Working Class - I Never Even Asked for Light (1997)

Songs of Green Pheasant - Songs of Green Pheasant (2005)

Growing - His Return (2005)

Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier (2007)

Snowman - Absence (2011)

Lullaby for the Working Class - I Never Even Asked for Light (1997)

Here's some nice, melancholic indie folk that reminds me of simpler times. Lullaby for the Working Class have aged much better than some of their more successful Saddle Creek compatriots (lookin' at you, Rilo Kiley.) This is partially due to their approachable, dense but organic sound, which, on I Never Even Asked for Light, is made by 12 musicians and over 20 instruments -- acoustic guitars, banjo, mandolin, violin, that kind of thing -- and partially due to their ability to look beyond their own little worlds. Members of Cursive and Bright Eyes.

Track listing:
1. Untitled
2. Show Me How the Robots Dance
3. Irish Wake
4. Jester's Siren
5. Hypnotist (Song for Daniel H.)
6. In Honor My Stumbling
7. This Is as Close as We Get
8. The Sunset and the Electric Bill
9. Bread Crumbs
10. Descent
11. The Man vs. the Tide (Part 1)
12. The Man vs. the Tide (Part 2)
13. The Man vs. the Tide (Part 3)

Colliding in a gas
We're two atoms of a kind
Rising from the fuel tank
And dancing on the windshield