I occasionally have friends that express some interest in what I’m listening to. So just for fun and as a compliment to the Pitchfork “best of” list, I present a quick rundown of some of the songs that have been in heavy rotation over at my place for the last few months (listed in pretty much the order that they’re in the queue right now):
- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea – Neutral Milk Hotel
- Two Headed Boy – Neutral Milk Hotel
- Holland, 1945 – Neutral Milk Hotel
- Get Better – Mates of State
- The Re-Arranger – Mates of State
- Sweet Lorraine – Patty Griffin
- Tony – Patty Griffin
- Take Me To the Riot – Stars
- The Night Starts Here – Stars
- Help, I’m Alive – Metric
- Dead Sound – The Raveonettes
- Bad Reputation – Joan Jett
- Apologize – One Republic
- Use It – The New Pornographers
- Panic Switch – Silversun Pickups
- Alas I Cannot Swim – Laura Marling
- Test Pattern – The Thermals
- Band of Gold – Freda Payne
- Umbrella – Rihanna
- I Like You So Much Better When You’re Naked – Ida Maria
- Dead Skunk – Loudon Wainwright III
- You Really Got Me – The Kinks
- Don’t Look Back Into the Sun – The Libertines
- Tim I Wish You Were Born a Girl – Of Montreal
- Nature of the Experiment – Tokyo Police Club