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Things & Things Mix Five: Sommar

Despite its title, this isn’t the second all-Swedish mix I promised earlier this year. That will come, but first I had to share the best tracks I’ve come across in the past two months.

It’s a collection of songs that are at times both harsh and dreamy, energetic and lazy, fitting for the summer/sommar.

Things & Things Mix Five: Sommar

01. “Go Outside” – Cults

02. “I Can Be Dreamy” – Coolrunnings

03. “I Was Thinking…” – Gauntlet Hair

04. “Gonna Listen To T. Rex (All Night Long)” – Burnt Ones

05. “Family Vacation” – Pill Wonder

06. “Rill Rill” – Sleigh Bells

07. “Everything Will Be Alright” – Golden Ages

Original image by Flickr user Fiskeben, used with permission.

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Things & Things Mix Four: Ö

The first of two all-Swedish mixes, made in collaboration with Erik Svedäng.


1. “Pulling Our Weight” – The Radio Dept.
2. “Let My Shoes Lead Me Forward” – Jenny Wilson
3. “It Pays to Belong” – The Embassy
4. “No Comply” – Studio
5. “Dischoe” – Those Dancing Days
6. “The Opposite of Hallelujah” – Jens Lekman
7. “God Knows (You Gotta Give to Get)” – El Perro Del Mar
8. “Åt Helvete Med Himlem” – Parken
9. “Animal” – Miike Snow
10. “Babylon” – The Tough Alliance
11. “Om Du Möter Varg” – Detektivbyrån
12. “Panda” – Dungen

Available for download from SoundCloud, and as a Spotify playlist.
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Things & Things Mix Three: Blessed


1. “Blessa” – Toro Y Moi
2. “All the Kings Men” – Wild Beasts
3. “No Intention” – Dirty Projectors
4. “Preacher’s Son” – Midnight Masses
5. “Bless This Mess” – David Bazan
6. “Norway” – Beach House
7. “Take Anything” – My People Sleeping
8. “Hammock” – MillionYoung

Available for download on SoundCloud, and as a partial playlist on Spotify.

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Discovery: 1999, Ten Years Later (a mix)

By now you’ve already heard mixes recapping 2009’s best albums. So I won’t bore you with yet another list topped by Merriweather Post Pavilion. Instead, I bring you a mix of songs from 1999, now a full 10 years behind us.

1. “Barcelona” – The Rentals
2. “Breakfast of Champions” – Rainer Maria
3. “The Aristocratic Swells” – Beulah
4. “I Don’t Want to Get Over You” – The Magnetic Fields
5. “Never Meant” – American Football
6. “The Plan” – Built to Spill
7. “Roanoke Born” – Aloha
8. “Loro” – Pinback
9. “Over My Head ” – Red House Painters

You can download the full mix, or add it (in part) on Spotify.
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Things & Things Winter Mix 2009

Merry post-Christmas! I hope yours was a lovely one. Mine sure was.

In honor of the holidays, and the winter season in general, I’ve put together A Traveler: Things & Things Winter Mix 2009. You can stream and download the full mix via SoundCloud, and add it to your Spotify playlists here.

To DL the songs individually (and support the artists!), you can grab them via the Amazon MP3 downloader. It’s surprisingly swift and, best of all, their entire collection is DRM-free.

A Traveler: Things & Things Winter 2009 Mix

1. “It’s Winter & You Don’t Love Me Anymore” – Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
2. “Anorak Christmas” – Sally Shapiro
3. “Winter” – The Dodos
4. “Another Winter In a Summer Town” – No Kids
5. “Winter Tour” – Britta Persson (available as CD only)
6. “Winter Solstice” – Sufjan Stevens
7. “Winter Wooskie” – Belle & Sebastian
8. “The New Year (Death Cab for Cutie cover)” – Vitamin String Quartet

Related book fix: If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

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