70 mixes with songs by “Thee More Shallows”

countryside, dry rains, ghosts, imagine woods and deserts, gardens and paths, vague dreams, lost love ...it's an incomplete set of themes that are present in this unusual, rather elegiacal, but at the same time philosophical collection. mainly alt-country 33 tracks including Bill Callahan, Woven Hand and Neil Young.

Final Fantasy, Coconut Records, Stripmall Architecture...

i see myself in your teeth

A celebration of the best label of all time.

23 tracks including music by Why?, Alias and Sole.

Two other great labels:

http://8tracks.com/scoreback/def-jux

http://8tracks.com/scoreback/ninja-tune

We can watch the Walking Dead latter right now I have to "work".

a theon/robb mix

A simple distraction.

For those days when the last thing you want to hear is something happy.

Eighty tracks including music by Nyles Lannon, M. Ward, and Vetiver.

While looking back on the previous year and forward to the next, it is always enlightening to reflect on the music that defined the last 12 months of your life. Like a journal, you are able to trace common themes like threads, to see your own story as another might see it. So here is a countdown of the 25 most-listened to songs of my 2011. Here is my story.

Nine tracks including music by Sage Francis, Heatmiser, and William Fitzsimmons.