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Mixtape 161 • Sand Angel

As individuals, Jay Som and Palehound each have their musical quirks and unique style. Together as Bachelor they plot a strange new course through the realm of dream pop.

As individuals, Jay Som and Palehound each have their musical quirks and unique style. Together as Bachelor they plot a strange new course through the realm of dream pop.
Bachelor
SongArtistNotes
Sand Angel
Bachelor
Slow drifting
Tactics
Japanese Breakfast
Like a scalpel
Daddy's Home
St. Vincent
Some weird jazz
nowhere, man
Tune-Yards
With a Vroomy shuffle
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Lemmy Gaga
Les idiots
Originally by Mötörhead, sort of
Wisdom Tooth
Creedle
It won’t hurt a bit
Watercooler
TLO
Walk of Doom
Naked Giants
But it gets you there
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Pink Dragon
Parov Stelar
Worthwhile hallucination
Glowing in the Dark
Django Django
Hypnosis commencing
Greetings From A Distant Friend
North Americans
The sound of hovering
Easter Song (North Star Dub)
A Man Called Adam
Quite festive
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Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
Manic energy galore
Love Luggage
Young Fresh Fellows
Down in the Chard
Sweetnesss Lies Within
Hefner
Reaching for the high notes
Let's Work Together
Peter Stampfel
Can’t mistake that voice
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Can't Make Your Life Better
Lilys
Having a serious meltdown
Dan And Mary Ann
Modern Mal
A nice duet
Alex Trebek
The Fleshtones
Can you frame the chorus as a question?
You Speak My Language
Morphine
Low rumble
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Words That Stay
Tele Novella
Clear mountain holler
over two minutes
Heavy Vegetable
Quite the insider song title
Second Sight
Buck Meek
Filling out quite nicely
Dig up the Hatchet
Jimbo Mathus & Andrew Bird
Wicked sharp
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Give Up Your Life
Spirit of the Beehive
Lucid dreaming
Silver Or Lead
Mariachi El Bronx
Give me five
Surgery
TLO
Gimme Some Truth
Cheap Trick
Originally by John Lennon
Web In Front
Archers Of Loaf
Essence of Nineties
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One Inna Million
Tony Allen
Unmistakable flutter
Upside Down
Music Is The Weapon
From Sweden
9mm
Butter 08
NYC weirdcore
Las Paya No Puen Entra Al Lowen
Rakel Winchester
Te lo juro
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