THE RACKET : LIST 7 - A Melancholy Burner

A few thoughts about the artists included in List 7.

1. A.A. Bondy was a relative unknown to us (eight years between albums in the modern age will make you just about disappear) until we heard this melancholy burner called "Killers 3." We have now pledged our lives to the Church of Bondy and if you need us please send a sonic signal into the cosmic void and just maybe we'll detach ourselves from the reverie and reach back out. 

2. When making a mixtape we hope each song glides from one to the next with tone or atmosphere or simply feels. We tweak and retweak and untweak and again retweak every switch on all of our lists hoping that if played loud and proud or let simmer on your speaker's back burners, that it will seem like a cohesive (and exquisitely rad) experience. Sometimes you stumble on a song like Julia Jacklin's "Body", a song that regardless of where it sits on any mix is sonic bridge, a foot path from one song (or genre or band or era) to the next. We didn't mean to build a mixtape around it, but we certainly ended up doing so.

3. It has been our intention to use XTC's "The Somnabulist" as the final song on a mixtape since we started making these mixtapes. It's an industrial heartbeat of a track, an iceberg slow dirge that manages a hint of catchiness. And, quite honestly, we don't know if it works here at the end, as the tone of this 'tape grows slower and sadder, but we felt a little slow and sad in the making of this mix, and we found ourselves unable to snip it from the session. 

Here it is though, dark and weird because we've been feeling dark and weird. Not much else to say.