Mixtape: Get Light

Shimmering springtime strummers.

“dewbells double exposure” by vivek jena is licensed and modified under CC BY 2.0 DEED.

Liner Notes

Get Light is a mixtape for the springtime. 🌱

It’s a collection of shimmering strummers, loose and lively, bright and buoyant.

It’s stripped-down, but wound-up. It’s modern, but nostalgic. It’s nod to the blog buzz bands of the early 2000s as well as their spiritual precursors and successors. 

It’s grounded, but uplifting, designed to generate thrust, propulsion, and rapid forward momentum—not unlike the blog buzz bands of the early 2000s. ⚡️

It’s about rebirth, rejuvenation, refreshments. Cold ones. Sweaty glass. Bubbles. Ice. Electrolytes. Iced tea and lemonade. 🧊

So, go. Take off. Go forth and flourish. Lay down burden. Get light. 

▶︎ Listen to Get Light

Tracklist:

1. Thoughts Have Turned - Flo & Eddie

2. Everybody Come Outside - Pomegranates 

3. Hraka - Finn Riggins

4. Oh Mandy - The Spinto Band

5. Kissing the Lipless - The Shins

6. Sweet Jane - The Velvet Underground

7. Nobody But Me - The Human Beinz

8. We Belong Together - Vampire Weekend, Danielle Haim

9. I Turned My Back on the Written Word - Generationals

10. The Steps - HAIM

11. All My Friends - The XYZ Affair

12. Magheeta - My Morning Jacket

13. Bottled In Cork - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

14. These Days - Dr. Dog

15. Sister Cities - Hop Along

16. Fade to Black - Born Ruffians

▶︎ Listen to Get Light

More music like this:

• ☊ The Balm: Tropical tunes with digital dimensions. 

• ☊ Onset: Looking back east from the west.

• ☊ Sways: Modern nineties sounds for the fall.

More from me:

• ⌾ Some comedy 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.

And remember…

We are the mixtape makers. And we are the streamers of streams.

Joe