Part eleven of an array of CD mixes I made for my wife over a long number of years! Read more about it here!
This cover is a staged photo from an old home office. The chair was an old-as-fuck Herman Miller chair that I got from my job. Even though I did clean it for the photo, I’m surprised that it looks as pristine as it does in that photo because the chair was over a decade old and absolutely falling apart. (Note the missing armrest. Also, the backrest was absolutely deteriorating. Yeah, I worked endless hours and days and weeks and months and years sitting in that chair.)
Similarly, the space my wife and myself were renting was held together by spit and baling wire, but did have a very quaint rustic veneer.
If I had to do it over again, I’d tweak the 11 alignment and figure out something better for the longer song titles. Maybe give it a bit more breathing room. Otherwise? I am fucking pleased as punch with it.
And yeah, this is when I glommed onto serif-centric lettering, as evidenced by this site’s current visual theme.
Highlights? VON MAGNET’s ‘Mann Hinter Dem Vorgang’ is an interlaced masterpiece. DIFFERNET’s ‘Survival Kit’ is a gorgeously languid and melancholy five-and-a-half minutes that intentionally stumbles along until it pretends that it finds its confidence. The missed SHRAG’s ‘Forty-Five 45s’ is indie pop perfection, all heartfelt inflection with a steadfast guitarline, and then there’s the vastly underlooked BE YOUR OWN PET ‘Becky’ which is an exceptionally lurid and vibrant reflection of punk 80s verve.
It makes me happy. (Artist / Album / Song):
- CAMILLE / Le Fil / Assise
- VON MAGNET / Ni prédateur ni proie / Mann Hinter dem Vorhang
- LARKIN GRIMM / Parplar / Ride that Cyclone
- PALE YOUNG GENTLEMEN / Black Forest (Tra La La) / The Crook of My Good Arm
- CROOKED FINGERS / Forfeit/Fortune / Let’s Not Pretend (To Be New Men)
- ELBOW / The Seldom Seen Kid / Grounds for Divorce
- GOGOL BORDELLO / Super Taranta! / Ultimate
- MAMMUT / SXSW 2007 Showcasing Artists / Midnaeturmetall
- KATZENJAMMER / Le Pop / Tea With Cinnamon
- TILLY AND THE WALL / That Remix Sucks / The Freest Man [CSS]
- DIFFERNET / Collapsing Universe / Survival Kit
- THE RAVEONETTES / Lust Lust Lust / The Beat Dies
- INKLEIN QUARTET / Brave New World / Lonely Whale Song
- SLEATER-KINNEY / Dig Me Out / Jenny
- SHRAG / Shrag / Forty Five 45s
- THE LONG BLONDES / Giddy Stratospheres / Polly
- BE YOUR OWN PET / Get Awkward / Becky
- FINAL FANTASY / Spectrum, 14th Century / The Butcher