Perpetual Autumn

Here's a mix loosely inspired by my growing dislike of the season known as 'Summer'. I don't know when it happened exactly but I think it occurred when I stopped drinking beer. Well, it's not that I've "quit" drinking beer; I still occasionally consume and enjoy it, particularly the 3rd beer buzz but I think I've largely outgrown its charm. I just don't feel the desire anymore. I think maybe it's conditioning because once I left academics for a permanent position in the health care industry, I lost the freedom to come and go as I please at the lab. Gotta be at work 5 days a week and keep my hours, no more knocking off early to find a patio and well, drink beer. So what I'm basically driving at is if I'm not sitting around a patio, goldbricking and drinking beer, I hate summer. Makes sense to me, I'm a very linear man. Also my house retains heat like a fucking green house. I should install solar panels. Anyway, I'm sick of summer, the heat, the bugs, sweating, I'm done. The mix below is loosely inspired by this feeling. It leans a little heavy on CDN artists from the last couple of years, largely CBC3-kind of artists. Here's to perpetual autumn, cool, dark evenings and and pitch black early mornings with cupped hands, visible breath & broken leaves under feet.

01. Science Comes First

02. Eighteen - Lions in the Street

03. Don't Tell Mom - Mother's Children

04. Ghost in the Park - Young Rival

05. Young Hipster - Little Foot Long Foot

06. Echoes Of My Sins - Anders Osbourne

07. Soft in the Center - The Hold Steady

08. Settin' The Woods On Fire - Ronnie Spector

09. I Went To Heaven In A Dream Last Night - Daddy

10. For a Few Dollars More - The Manvils

11. Fashion Blues - The Beauties

12. Something About the Bedroom - Cobra Verde

13. Me and Your Ghost - Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles

14. Officer Down - Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle

15. It's Not the Liquor I Miss - Luke Doucet

16. I Got A Life - Dojo Workhorse

17. Perpetual Autumn - The Paperbacks

18. Our Little Secret - Art Bergmann

19. Forced to Love - Broken Social Scene

20. Anyone's Ghost - The National

21. Huntsville Affair - NQ Arbuckle

22. Touch Me I'm Going to Scream Pt. 2 - My Morning Jacket