50/13 - I Let It Out, I Couldn't Let It In

Last list from Scotland this year. I'm off home to Sweden this evening. Tunes are a collision of past and future.

Bob Dylan - Copper Kettle

I wanted to have the version on Another Self Portrait, which is slightly less over the top with the arrangement, but this one works too. It's the pastoral bliss of the lyrics that's the main thing anyway.

We'll just lay there by the juniper, while the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a-filling in the pale moonlight

Steve Mason - I Let Her In

This christmas shall bring peace of mind.

Serge Gainsbourg - Cargo Culte

The culmination of a fantastic album and the best stop-then-start-trick in the book.

Dawn of Midi - Io

Was introduced to this band via Radiolab, and still haven't actually had time to listen to the whole album. But I know I'm gonna love it. Because it begins like this. And there's 40 more minutes of this. I mean; even the first few seconds are enough to sell me. When something starts like that; like a small stone meteor hurled towards you from deep empty space, you can't but keep your eyes on it, transfixed, while it picks up speed, grows in your field of vision, spins, gives off sparks, and hits the atmosphere in a cloud of fire...

The Mountain Goats - Woke Up New 

...and then you wake up. Fresh, but empty. Confused. What's this winter to bring?