Mixtape: Departures
Lost in transportation.
Liner Notes
Departures is a collection of buzzy, ambient songs for the fall that drift between the digital and the analog; the West and the East. 🏯
This mixtape is about distance. It’s about leaving and loneliness. It’s about locations. It’s about Asia and it’s about Japan. 🇯🇵
It’s about getting lost in translation. It’s about getting lost in transportation. 📡
It’s about parting and departing.
It’s about airports. 🛫
It’s about flight. It’s about flights.
It’s about terminals. It’s about the terminal.
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Tracklist:
Autumn Sweater - Yo La Tengo
Monk - jan and naomi
Unlikely Japan - Wilco
We Will Become Silhouettes - The Postal Service
Kyoto - Phoebe Bridgers
Planetary Ambience - Japanese Breakfast
Send For Me - The National
Go Home - Angel Olsen
The Fear - The Shins
Million Miles - TV On The Radio
Fēnliè (分裂) - Faye Wong
Return - Brian Eno
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If you vibed to this, you might also vibe to:
☊ Sways — Modern nineties sounds for the fall.
☊ Hydes — A fall weather mixtape about keeping up appearances.
☊ Waxwings — Songs about people just passing through by people who were just passing through.
☊ In My Room — Dan Svizeny’s highlights of lo-fi.
More writing from me:
⌾ I wrote a little comedy piece for McSweeney’s called I’m Your Three-Year-Old Interior Designer and This Is Your New Home Makeover.
⌾ I write more comedy like this on Clipping Silver, my other even less-exclusive Substack.
We are the mixtape makers. And we are the streamers of streams.