Here's the track listing for my mix CD for the year. Rules: released in some format this year, not so bizarre as totally to disconcert the casual listener, editable down to fit in with twenty four others. Oh, and excellence of course...
1. Meditation Song #2 (Why Oh Why) - Cloud Control (Bliss Release)
2. Zorbing - Stornoway (Beachcomber's Windowsill)
3. Beautifully Broken - Jon Dee Graham & The Fighting Cocks (It's Not As Bad As It Looks)
4. United Provinces of India – Cornershop (The Battle Of New Orleans EP)
5. She Just Likes To Fight - Four Tet (There Is Love In You)
6. Horchata - Vampire Weekend (Contra)
7. Bright Lit Blue Skies - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti (Before Today)
8. The Sweet Part of the City - The Hold Steady (Heaven is Whenever)
9. Losing My Patients - Shit Robot (From The Cradle To The Rave)
10. Bad Luck Boy - Liz Green (Crow Cries EP)
11. Sickie Boy - Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 (Propellor Time)
12. Someone's Gonna Rescue You - Neil Young (Le Noise)
13. What's New? - Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephen (For The Ghosts Within)
14. Six Toes – Brasstronaut (Mt. Chimaera)
15. House of Cards - Robert Plant (Band of Joy)
16. The Visitor - Portico Quartet (Isla)
17. Sashimi – Tunng (...And Then We Saw Land)
18. Rambling Man - Laura Marling (I Speak Because I Can)
19. (Bit Part) - The Wooden Sky (If I Don't Come Home, You'll Know I'm Gone)
20. Heirloom - Sufjan Stevens (All Delighted People EP)
21. For Everyman [Live] - Jackson Browne & David Lindley (Love Is Strange)
22. New Year's Eve's The Loneliest Night Of The Year -Trembling Bells with Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (Single)
23. Returnal - Oneohtrix Point Never (Returnal)
24. Silence of a Moonlit Sky - Cocos Lovers (Johannes)
25. I've Seen It Go Away - Merle Haggard (I Am What I Am)
If you'd like a copy, and Santa doesn't bring you one, let me know...