Friday, April 06, 2012

"2011 - Where I Was, What Was Passing Around Me"

Most of Trang's mixes have only a tangential connection to the mainstreamish contemporary, but this one, a document of her 2011, is an exception. She picks mellower songs from two of the key records of my own 2011 ("I Know Places" from Wounded Rhymes and "Rest Your Head On My Shoulder" from Seeker Lover Keeper) as well as my favourite from another in high rotation last year and this (the title track from Fleet Foxes' last), along with plenty of others that are no strangers to the radio (Little Red's "Rock It", Adele's "Rolling in the Deep", Bon Iver, Beirut). A nice mix.