"Ghosts"

A mix cd from David - very enjoyable. There's a notable degree of musical/thematic coherency to the mix, ranging as it does across a cross-section of current indie-modern-rock act (or whatever they're called these days), with a couple of familiar songs from touchstone artists (Neil Young's "Don't Let It Bring You Down" and Tom Waits' "Hang Down Your Head") thrown in, and a pair of more electronic-infused cuts to begin and end (Ladytron's "Ghosts" and Panda Bear's "Take Pills"). From Radiohead, covers of two of my favourite songs, "Unravel" and "Ceremony"; from Phantom Planet, a song, "Quarantine", that sounds an awful lot like Radiohead. The standout's the Walkmen's "Another One Goes By", in its scuttle and sway like an end of the day second act to the marvellous "Louisiana".