Playlist - Into Spring

In two weeks I'm going to be heading to New York for the very first time, and so in preparation I'm trying to put together playlists for the long flights there and back. If anyone passes by here and has any tips, recommendations are welcome! It's boring to always moan about lacking the hours to sit and write and consume new music, I know, but I am enjoying setting time aside to research recent albums and catch up on tracks and bands that I've seen flash by my screen, unexplored until now.

So here I am at the beginning: some music that's caught my ear recently, that will hopefully lead to further new discoveries...

Listen : dressuptomessup mix #2

dressuptomessup -- mix#2

Tracklist:

Cold Pumas - Rayon Gris

Dinosaur Jr - Stick A Toe In

Melody's Echo Chamber - I Follow You

Omi Palone - A Reason

Parlour - My Love

The Proper Ornaments - Shining Bright

The Soft Pack - Bound To Fall

Sonic Youth - Disconnection Notice

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Gardenia

Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards

Temples - Shelter Song

Wendy Rene - After Laughter (Comes Tears)

*These are in alphabetical order because Spotify made me. But it still sounds great.

Fright Night Mix

dressuptomessup -- mix #2

Tracklist:

Radio Vago - Shotgun

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Spellbound

The Sonics - The Witch

Veronica Falls - Found Love In A Graveyard

Broadcast - Black Cat

Plug - Fresh Pleasures

Las Robertas - Ghost Lover

The Cure - A Forest

Unwound - Murder Movies

The Cramps - Zombie Dance

Nervous Norvus - Transfusion

Bobby "Boris" Pickett - Monster Mash

Happy Halloween, guys and ghouls.

Listen : dressuptomessup mix #1

dressuptomessup -- mix #1

Tracklist:
Gene Pitney - 24 Sycamore
Nancy Sinatra - Tonight You Belong To Me
The Lemonheads - If I Could Talk I'd Tell You
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
J Mascis - Not Enough
Orange Juice - Louise Louise
Thurston Moore - Benediction
Sleater-Kinney - One More Hour
Kurt Vile - Invisibility: Nonexistent
Carpenters - Superstar
Dory Previn - The Lady With The Braid
Dinah Washington - I Wanna Be Around

With the seasons changing over, I've celebrated the arrival of Autumn with two typically festive traits - getting very ill, and spending a lot of time cooped up inside as the orange nights get darker. I thought I'd be able to get some writing done with all of this down time, but the only activities I've been able to muster energy for have been watching The Inbetweeners, making a vat of soup and painting my nails. I AM SO BORED.

It's nice to see the trees turning shades of red and copper from the window, and feeling snug under my duvet, though. I've been listening to a lot of comfort tunes - songs that accompanied crunching through leaves on my way home from secondary school or moping around my bedroom when it rained too hard to venture out. Songs that remind me of late nights sitting up with friends in the kitchen and listening to on headphones under the covers when I couldn't sleep. Warming, familiar sounds that go some way to curing this cold.

And so I introduce to you the first dressuptomessup mix! I've been lazy and ended up making it on Spotify, which I'm ashamed about. But that's easier for everyone, right?  Even if you ONLY listen to the Dory Previn track, then that's fine. I think I've now played it 100 times over, and I love it more and more every time. Anyway, I hope you like it.