Unthemed tape: untitled

This tape cheats a good deal when it comes to flow, but as a consequence it doesn't do anything particularly creative. Tracks 1 and 2 start with two very similar percussion intros and then launch into some heavy guitar riffs, which makes flow basically a non-issue - it's like hearing an echo, almost, of the first song. I tried to take it down a little for track 3 but basically couldn't figure out how, so the momentum carries all the way through track 4, which is an early crescendo for the tape. Track 5 is much cleaner, which is supposed to work like a palate cleanser, but its last few seconds introduce the wavering guitar that characterizes the next two tracks. The eighth track returns to the harder sound, which continues through the end of the tape.

1. The Weakerthans - Aside
2. Counting Crows - Angels of the Silences
3. The Moondoggies - Changing
4. The Low Anthem - Champion Angel
5. Calexico - Deep Down
6. Dan Auerbach - Heartbroken, In Disrepair
7. Robert Plant and Alison Kraus - Fortune Teller
8. The Raconteurs - Steady, As She Goes
9. eels - Lilac Breeze
10. Oasis - The Shock of the Lightning
11. The New Pornographers - Stacked Crooked

(To listen to the playlist in full, instead of these absurd 30-second samples, go here.)

Shock!