unpopular

Depth of Field

 

Snow falls, but it doesn't settle.

London South - Nick Nicely (digital single)
A303 - Alto 45 (from 'Hymns Of The A Roads'. Bandcamp)
Tread Softly - Tiny Ruins & Hamish Kilgour (from 'Hurtling Through' mini-LP. Bandcamp)
From The Square To The Hill - Darren Hayman (from 'Florence' LP. Bandcamp)
The Season - Elizabeth Morris (from 'Athens' EP. Bandcamp)
25th - Sadie Horler (digital single)
City Bells - Deerful (digital single. Bandcamp)
We Met Bernard Sumner At A Christmas Party Last Night - Marsheaux (from 'Ghosts of Christmas Past' LP. YouTube)
Listen, the snow is falling - lispector (from 'Dancin' In The Nite' EP. Bandcamp)
Dying Star (Cirrus) - The Luxembourg Signal (from split 7". Bandcamp)
Ain't That Something - Trashcan Sinatras (from new LP due 2016)
When the Poor Can Reach the Moon - The Chills (digital single. Bandcamp)
Little Uneasy - Fazerdaze (digital single. Bandcamp)
Peach Boy - Jay Som (from 'Untitled' LP. Bandcamp)
Horses at Night - Still Corners (digital single. Bandcamp)
Change Your Mind - City Steps (digital single. Bandcamp)
Fog - Stutter Steps (from 'Stutter Steps' LP on Wild Kindness. YouTube)
Emo Friends - Bruising (from 7" single. Bandcamp)
It's Not Christmas Anymore - Bill Botting & The Two Drink Minimums (from festive cassette EP. Bandcamp) 
Boyfriend - The Goon Sax (digital single. Bandcamp)
No Common Sense - E'spaniel (digital single)
Depth of Field - Sea Pinks (from 'Soft Days' LP due 2016. Bandcamp)

you'll find me under the mistletoe

 

A Shot In The Dark

If you do well in school, I'll take you to the swimming pool

Nature Boy - Big Star (from 'third' LP. YouTube)
Country Girl - Primal Scream (Vimeo)
Get Off Of My Cloud - Richard Lloyd (available on 'ORK RECORDS: NEW YORK, NEW YORK' boxset. YouTube)
American Rock - Denim (from 'Back In Denim' LP. YouTube)
Laid - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart (from the 'Hell' EP. YouTube)
Age of Consent - Tape Waves (from 'Songs For Bleeding Gold II' bonus LP. Bandcamp)
looking for a stranger on the shore - Linton and Stewart (from Emotional Response label 7")
Silver Bullets - The Chills (from 'Silver Bullets' LP. Bandcamp)
How Low Can You Go - Essendon Airport (from 'Can't Stop It #1' compilation. Bandcamp)
Death Song - My Autumn Empire (from 'Dreams of Death and Other Favourites' LP. Bandcamp)
Who Put Bella In The Wych Elm? - Gravenhurst (available on 'Offerings: Lost Songs 2000 - 2004' LP. YouTube)
The Mighty 8th - July Skies (from 'The English Cold' LP. Bandcamp)
Jaromil - Melodien (from 'Theurgy' LP. Bandcamp)
Korolev - Public Service Broadcasting (from 12" single. Soundcloud)
Alone In the Universe - ELO (from 'Alone In The Universe' LP)
A Shot In The Dark - Butterfly Child (from 'Futures' LP)
SAD - Shunkan (from 'The Pink Noise' LP. Bandcamp)
Comic Book Dreams - Persian Rugs (from 'This Is OK for Now' LP. Bandcamp)
Potter's Grave - The Drink (from 'Capital' LP)
Something Good Together - The Bitter Springs (from 'Cuttlefish & Loves Remains' LP)

this ain't forever

 

Breaker

Push away from the shore

Golden - Xenia Kriisin (from 'Bleed' LP. Bandcamp. YouTube)
Fall for You (Again) - The Late Innings (from 'Arrived & Departed' LP. Bandcamp. YouTube)
Does It Really Matter - Postal Blue (from 'Of Love and Other Affections' LP)
Love's Melody - Ducks Deluxe (from 'Taxi To The Terminal Zone' LP. YouTube)
(I Thought) You Wanted To Know - Chris Stamey & The dBs (available on 'ORK RECORDS: NEW YORK, NEW YORK' boxset. YouTube)
Forget About You - The Motors (available on 'The Virgin Years' boxset)
Lessons Learned In Love - Goodman (from 'Goodman' EP. Bandcamp)
Beat Goes On - Penetration (from 'Resolution' LP. YouTube)
Aurora Corona - The Chills (from 'Silver Bullets' LP)
big ocean - The Aislers Set (from Emotional Response label 7". Also on Bandcamp)
Ride The Waves To The Shore - Strawberry Whiplash (from 'Stuck In The Never Ending Now' LP on Matinee Records)
Breaker - Deerhunter (from 'Fading Frontier' LP. YouTube)
Seashore - Nick Garrie (from 'The Nightmare Of J​.​B. Stanislas (The Cuts)' EP. Bandcamp)
Yarborough - North Atlantic Explorers (from 'All The Ships At Sea' LP. Bandcamp)
Sailing Day - The Leaf Library (from 'Daylight Versions' LP. Bandcamp)
Goodbye Joe - Tracey Thorn (available on 'Solo: Songs And Collaborations 1982-2015)
Stuart Murray - The Hermit Crabs (from 'In My Flat' LP on Matinee Records)
Post Office Girl - Darren Hayman (from 'Florence' LP. Bandcamp)
London Bound - People//Talk (from 'Songs For Bleeding Gold II' LP. Bandcamp)
Garden Echoes - My Autumn Empire (from 'Dreams of Death and Other Favourites' LP. Bandcamp)
199.9mg - Melodien (from 'Theurgy' LP. Bandcamp)

We can do better, beginning today.

Abstract Objects

That's a target on his blazer, not a crest

Poetry Emmulsion - The Bitter Springs (from 'Cuttlefish & Loves Remains' LP)
Out In A Forest - The Fallen Leaves (7" single. Bandcamp)
Going To Heaven To See If It Rains - The Close Lobsters (from 'Firestation Towers: 1986-1989' retrospective)
Best Days On Earth - Trashcan Sinatras (YouTube)
Time To Share - Model Village (from 'Healing Centre' LP. Bandcamp)
Hot Dog Race - the Friday Swaps (from WIAIWYA 7". Bandcamp)
Colour Me Dark - IKO CHÉRIE (from 'Dreaming On' LP. Bandcamp)
Fire - Summer Twins (from 'Limbo' LP. Bandcamp)
Chekhov's Hangnail - Martha (split single. Bandcamp)
Abstract Objects - The Shifting Sands (from 'Cosmic Radio Station' LP. Bandcamp)
1995 - Molly Nilsson (from 'Zenith' LP. On Night School Records. YouTube)
p.o. box - the nonpareils (from 'Compiled Recordings' LP. Bandcamp)
Spectre - the Left Outsides (from 'A Girl And A Gun' LP. Bandcamp)
The Saturday Dads - Legends Of Country (from 'Talk About Country' LP. Bandcamp. YouTube)
She Comes Tomorrow (Peel 28/10/1985) - Meat Whiplash (available on Creation Records boxset)
Affection - Cigarettes After Sex (digital single. Bandcamp)
Friday I'm In Love - Yo La Tengo (from 'Stuff Like That There' LP. YouTube)
Go All The Way - Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs (from 'Completely Under The Covers' boxset)
By Piccadilly Station I Sat Down And Wept - Tracey Thorn (available on 'Solo: Songs And Collaborations 1982-2015)
On Tooting Broadway Station - Kitchens Of Distinction (from 'The Death of Cool' LP)

what's wrong with living inside a dream?

 

Just Drifting

Never seen a light so dark

The Only Planet - Molly Nilsson (from 'Zenith' LP. On Night School Records)
Kitty's Cool Beams - Pinkshinyultrablast (from 10" single)
Holding On - Butterfly Child (from forthcoming 'Futures' LP)
Good To You Again - IKO CHÉRIE (from 'Dreaming On' LP. Bandcamp)
The Coming Rain - The Drink (from 'Capital' LP)
Just Drifting - Penetration (from 'Resolution' LP. YouTube)
Wasting Away And Wondering - The School (from 'Wasting Away and Wondering' LP)
Learn To Burn - Robert Forster (from 'Songs To Play' LP)
Lost My Head There - Kurt Vile (from 'B'lieve I'm Going Down' LP)
Spying - Jennie Vee (from 'Spying' LP. Bandcamp)
If You Want It - TV Girl (from 'Our First 3 EPs' LP. Bandcamp)
Olive Avenue - Port Sulphur (digital single. Bandcamp)
I Want To Kiss You - The Spook School (from 'Trying To Be Helpful' LP. Bandcamp)
I Shouldn't Have To Say - Boyracer (in the Freakscene boxset. Bandcamp)
Guiding Light - hethers (digital single. Bandcamp)
On Cashel St - Transistors (from 'Cuppa Jarra Brossa' EP. Bandcamp)
No Taste Bomber - Salad Boys from 'Metalmania' LP. Bandcamp)
Untapped Utility - Mope City (single. Bandcamp)
Room for Rent (Demo) - Nancy Sin (Bandcamp)
Nuns Run The Apothecary - Darren Hayman (from 'Florence' LP. Bandcamp)

Never felt a fire so cold

Things I Hold

I close my eyes and find you there< I click my mouse and find a ZIP of this entire mix.

Again and Again (Demo) - Nancy Sin (Bandcamp)
I'm So Happy For You - Robert Forster (from 'Songs To Play' LP)
Don't Worry Baby (I Don't Love You Any More) - The School (from 'Wasting Away and Wondering' LP)
Lost In These Machines - Butterfly Child (Digital single. YouTube)
Just Like Them - Alpaca Sports (from 'When You Need Me The Most' EP. YouTube)
Crystal Days - Rose McDowall (from 'Cut With The Cake KNife' reissue LP on Night School Records)
Things I Hold - Knife Pleats (from 'Hat Bark Beach' LP. Bandcamp)
1000 Blue Ribbons - Fay Hallam (from 'Corona' LP. YouTube)
Since You Went Away - Roman Lakes (digital single. Bandcamp)
Summer End - Frozy (from 'Lesser Pop' LP. Bandcamp)
Coastlines And Laughter - July Skies (from 'Dreaming of Spires' LP vinyl reissue)
Nostalgia - Shocking Pinks (from 'Dance The Dance Electric' vinyl reissue)
Faith - Manicured Noise (from 'Northern Stories 1978/80' LP. YouTube)
God Bless - The Bodines (available on Creation Records boxset)
Dream Date - Salad Boys (from 'Metalmania' LP. Bandcamp. YouTube)
Carolina - Royal Headache (from 'High' LP. Bandcamp. YouTube)
less talk (more walkin away) - Kurt Vile (from 'B'lieve I'm Going Down' LP)
Now I Always Wonder If I Like It Here - Early Ghost (single. Bandcamp)
Color Set - Frankie Broyles (from 7" single. Bandcamp)
Berlin - Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures (from 'My Ass' LP. Bandcamp)
blue hour - mooncreatures (from 'Night Guides' LP. Bandcamp)
Dancing in the dark - lispector (from 'Dancin' In The Nite' EP. Bandcamp)

Now you're digging your own grave

No Memory

I don't care about much, but one of the things I care about is you< which is why those words are a thinly disguised link to this entire mix.

Crawl Space - Seconds (from split LP with Joya. Bandcamp)
Sometimes Accidentally - The Goon Sax (digital single. Bandcamp)
Something Much Quicker Than Anyone But Jennifer Could Ever Imagine - Hooton Tennis Club (from 'Highest Point in Cliff Town' LP)
Vade Necum Gunslinger (Live) - The Blue Aeroplanes (from 'Access All Areas' LP)
Rainbow - Win (from 'Freaky Trigger' LP)
One Step Too Far - Knife Pleats (from 'Hat Bark Beach' LP. Bandcamp)
Cracks - Binaries (from 'Double Star' 3" CD. Bandcamp)
Softest - Worthless (from 7" single. Bandcamp)
The Mirror Pool - The Oscillation (from 'Beyond the Mirror' LP. Bandcamp)
No Memory - The Drink (from 'Capital' LP. Soundcloud)
Harvest Time - The Clientele (from 'Alone and Unreal: The best of The Clientele' LP on Pointy Records)
Better - EGO (digital single. Bandcamp)
the brother behind the red curtain - Stars In Coma (from 'The Ghosts Were Prolific In Our Minds' EP. Bandcamp)
This Repeated Sodomy - The Radio Dept. (digital single. Soundcloud)
Sister - TeenCanteen (digital single. Bandcamp)
Cut With the Cake Knife - Rose Mcdowall (from 'Cut With The Cake KNife' reissue LP on Night School Records. YouTube)
Violence - Eternal Death (from 'Eternal Death' LP YouTube)
Let Your Hair Fall Down - The Bye Bye Blackbirds (digital single. Bandcamp)
Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go To The Party - Courtney Barnett (YouTube)
High - Royal Headache (from 'High' LP. Bandcamp)
Get High - Tender Age (from 7" single. Bandcamp)
Cemetery Kiss - Funeral Advantage (from 'Body is Dead' LP. Bandcamp)

dancing in the shadow of history

September Skies

We go through all the doors that whisky opens< and use all the download links to get some great music

September Skies - The Apartments from 'No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal' LP. Bandcamp)
We Were Meant 2 B - Princess Chelsea (from 'The Great Cybernetic Depression' LP. Bandcamp. YouTube)
What You Won't Do For Love - Junior Boys (soundcloud)
Gamlestan - The Honeydrips (digital single. Bandcamp)
Move On - Totally Mild (from 'Down Time' LP. Bandcamp)
Golden (demo) - MERCURY GIRLS (from 'demos'. Bandcamp)
Stranger - Hans Pucket (digital single. Bandcamp)
John - Thee AHs (from 'Names' LP. Bandcamp)
Trouble in Paradise - Tele Novella (digital single. Bandcamp)
I don't wanna - Candelaria Varela (from 'Confesiones de un sábado a la noche' EP. Bandcamp)
When You Were Mine - The Flatmates (from 7" single. Bandcamp)
Sleep Talk - Diet Cig (from 7" single. Bandcamp)
As Time Rolls By - Paul Messis (from 7" single. Bandcamp)
Another Saturday - Kip McGrath (from 'Kip McGrath' EP. Bandcamp)
P.O.W.E.R.F.U.L. P.I.E.R.R.E - Hooton Tennis Club (from ' The Highest Point In Cliff Town' LP. soundcloud)
Without You - The Wrong Society (from 7" single. Bandcamp)
Why - Restless Hearts (from 'Restless Hearts' LP. Bandcamp)
Me And The Stars And The Sea - Brideshead (from 'Never Grow Up' LP. Bandcamp)
Departures - Owl & Mouse (from 'Departures' LP. Bandcamp. YouTube))
Hounslow Solicitors (Acoustic Mix) - The Bitter Springs (from 'Cuttlefish and Love's Remains' LP)

Inappropriate behaviour, inconvenient responses

Shadows

Always the fool for love and its deceptions< click those words to download the mix. That ain't no deception

No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal - The Apartments (from 'No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal' LP. Bandcamp. YouTube)
It's Harvest Time - Michael Head & The Strands (from 'The Magical World of The Strands' LP. YouTube)
Venus - Reverieme (from 'Or Else The Light' LP. Bandcamp)
Break the Chain - Ultimate Painting (from 'Green Lanes' LP)
Shadows - The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience (from 'I Like Rain: The story of The Jean Paul Sartre Experience' boxset. Bandcamp)
Always - Red Sleeping Beauty (from 7" single. Soundcloud. <track not included in mix download>)
Byron (Anniv. Remix) - Aberdeen (free download. Bandcamp)
There's a Girl In the Corner - Robert Smith (YouTube)
Capturer - Frankie Broyles (from 7" single. Bandcamp)
Eccleshill - Gurgles (from 'Gurglefirst' LP. Bandcamp)
Big Sleeping House - Microdisney (from 'The Crooked Mile' LP)
California Owls - Death and Vanilla (from 'To Where The Wild Things Are' LP. Bandcamp. YouTube)
Washing Machine - Moon City Boys (from 7" single. Bandcamp)
Good On The Inside (I Don't Mind) - Sleuth (from 'Out Of The Blue Period' LP. Bandcamp)
Halfway Up A Hill - Day Ravies (from 'Liminal Zones' LP. Bandcamp)
Postcards - Mammoth Penguins (from 'Hide and Seek' LP)
Maybe Baby - Love L.U.V. (digital single. Bandcamp)
New Something - Camera Shy (from 'Camera Shy' LP. Bandcamp)
Jelly and Jam - Legends Of Country (from 'Talk About Country' LP. Bandcamp)

with a pizza and a couple of cans of London Pride

fake beach

I wish I had more sense in my brain<to realise that those words are a link to download the entire mix...

Short Love - Yesses (from 'Yesses' EP. Bandcamp)
Life is a Ball - Serpent Power (from 'Serpent Power' LP. YouTube)
Lone Ranger In The Sky - Nick Garrie (digital single. Bandcamp)
Nothing's Holy - Moon Types (from 'Know The Reason' 7". Bandcamp)
Strength In My Legs - Mammoth Penguins (from 'Hide and Seek' LP. YouTube)
The Moment - Tame Impala (from 'Currents' LP. YouTube)
Leave Me Behind - The Death Of Pop (from 'Bubble Bath' EP. Bandcamp)
Derek Jarman's Garden - Nicky Wire (from 'Break My Heart Slowly' single. YouTube)
No, No, No - Freschard (from 'Shh...' LP. Bandcamp)
Golem - Reverieme (from 'Or Else The Light' LP. Bandcamp)
Brutish Birds - Woodpigeon & Norman Blake (from WIAIWYA singles club 7". Bandcamp)
A Finely Tuned Machine - Sleuth (from 'Out Of The Blue Period' LP. Bandcamp)
Waterbrush - Scanner (from 'The Garden Is Full of Metal' LP)
Braindrainer - The Oscillation (from 'Beyond the Mirror' LP. Bandcamp)
Shifty Drifty - Space Bats, Attack! (from 'Space Bats, Attack!' LP. Bandcamp)
Into You - The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience (from 'I Like Rain: The story of The Jean Paul Sartre Experience' boxset. Bandcamp)
August Eyes - OH WELL, GOODBYE (from Bleeding Gold label tape. Bandcamp)
I Don't Want to Work It Out - Something Anorak (from 'Ageist' EP. Bandcamp)
That Boy - Obedient Wives Club (digital single. Bandcamp)
Fake Beach - Day Ravies (from 'Liminal Zones' LP. Bandcamp)
The Ocean - Ultimate Painting (from 'Green Lanes' LP)
Ed Ruscha - the transcendents (from 'Lay Where You Collapse' EP. Bandcamp)
I Want To Hang Out With Ed Ruscha - David Stephenson And Richard Bell (from CD single. YouTube) 

take a deep breath