The Giant Golden Radio

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It really shouldn’t take eight months to create one of these mixtapes. I went through a little dry stretch when I wasn’t all that impressed with what I was hearing on the radio/internet. I was getting ready to chalk it up to growing old and out of touch; I was preparing to settle down and listen to my same favorite bands from my mid-twenties for the rest of my life. As LCD Soundsystem would say, “I could hear the kids creeping up from behind” and I was prepared to let them pass me.

But then I started digging a little deeper, listening a little closer and — wait just a goddamn minute — I can still do this. I’m not ready to be passed up yet. It just took a little kick in the arse, but behold episode twenty fucking two.

As the ancient proverb says, don’t call it a comeback.

1. Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros – Home
2. The Temper Trap – Love Lost
3. Islands – Switched On
4. Hot Chip – So Glad To See You
5. The Notwist – One With The Freaks
6. Mimicking Birds – Burning Stars
7. Evening Hymns – Dead Deer
8. Built To Spill – Else
9. Kills – Last Day of Magic
10. Local Natives – Stranger Things
11. Efterklang – Modern Drift
12. French Kicks – One More Time
13. Lusine – Two Dots
14. Phoenix – Rome (Neighbours with Devendra Banhart remix)
15. The Middle East – Blood
16. Frightened Rabbit – Swim Until You Can’t See Land

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