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Mixtape 245 • Sociometer Blues

Arab Strap return with their particularly caustic sense of delicacy.

Arab Strap return with their particularly caustic sense of delicacy.
Arab Strap
SongArtistNotes
Sociometer Blues
Arab Strap
Waking up this morning
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Tangerine
Islands
For the citrus lovers
Bigfoot
The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group
That special beat
Texting & Driving
Guppy
Don’t do it
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Okay
Maya Hawke
If a bit woozy
Floating On A Moment
Beth Gibbons
A drifting mood
4316
Isobel Campbell
The apples in Scottish
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Inside This Dance
Alejandro Escovedo
Quite smoky
Oklahoma Nova Scotia
Being Dead
Very far away
My Mood Wave
The Lovely Eggs
Filling the spectrum
Dalí's Clock
Shannon + The Clams
Melting away polka
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Brown Paper Bag
DIIV
Methodical about it
Big Time Nothing
St. Vincent
Montage music
Mr. Whisky
The Gentle People
He’s a cheery fellow
Weird At My School
Pixies
Obscure favorite
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Dinner Bell
The Bobs
Originally from They Might Be Giants
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It was a night for mazzy music, starting with a startlingly woozy track from Maya Hawke and following up with entries from many other exemplary female vocalists with a unique sense of melody and delivery. Also, it’s now light when I leave for the radio station, and midnight when I return, which adds a sense of interdimensional time travel to the broadcasting ritual, I’m going to enjoy that for a few more shows before it’s back to operating under the cover of darkness.

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