"songs that everyone would want to hear on guitar"

i'll sing along to all of these, i promise.

blind willie mctell - atlanta twelve string

some anticon stuff:

dosh - pure trash

odd nosdam - burner

odd nosdam - pretty swell explode (disc 1 and disc 2)

i wish i could have lived in new york in the 80s

this is an ep from a feelies offshoot

the trypes - the explorers hold

i have spent time with unspoiled birds

diane cluck is the perfect medicine for how cold it's feeling in here and how dark it's been out there. she is haunting and tender and, please, s her well-deserved play count's fat d.

diane cluck - oh vanille

tote sillz

ave sangria - ave sangria

all i really want is your ghetto love

twenty-four/seven we'll be making love
(in such a coy and swedish way.)

florian - florianopolis

you can drive my impala and learn the kabbalah, too

phoenix love god.

eddy detroit - jungle captive

oh oh oh, caress my back

snuggle with this album because it is so cozy that you will not really have a choice anyways.

l.a.k.e. - oh the places we will go

breezy

this is super nice.

tsegue-maryam guebrou - ehtiopiques 21

this is the opposite of robot planes

london based free improvisation from 1968 comprised of john stevens, evan parker, kenny wheeler, derek bailey, and dave holland.

spontaneous music ensemble - karyobin

this past week, and all i've got to show:

sunset - pink clouds

the end of isolationism

kahimi karie is shibuya-kei, which means that she's from the shibuya district of tokyo. but there's no more tokugawa shogunate and sakoku's over. on k.k.k.k.k. she collaborates with many other artrists (momus!); on once upon a time she works with the olivia tremor control.

kahimi karie - k.k.k.k.k.

the olivia tremor control and kahimi karie - once upon a time

this is some jazz i got from kevin.

the art ensemble of chicago - certain blacks

ghosts

phil played last night at a release party for this book with songs. he said he had trouble talking about the book, which he described as being the bile from which these songs were distilled, and he hoped no one would try to talk to him about it. but it's so personal, and he's so good at sharing....

mount eerie - dawn

holy shit = ariel pink + matt fishbeck

holy shit - stranded at two harbors

"They turned to the right and immediately to the left, and something miaowed under the sidewalk, so they stopped to see what it was."

nico muhly - mothertongue

raw almonds

raw almonds are delicious and fleshy. plus, they taste the way almonds should.