The New LoFi Mixtape

This month’s mixtape is filled with good vibes. New music from Ben Hayes, Nubia Garcia, Little Dragon, AMTRAC, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, St. Vincent, King Krule and more!

The good vibes begin with a track from English musician, Georgia Barnes (daughter of Neil Barnes — one half of the ’90s UK electronic duo, Leftfield). Georgia started out playing alongside people like Kate Tempest and Kwes, but in 2015 she released her debut self-titled album. According to her record label, the album captured the “hyper-melodic tone of early 00s grime, sweltering, mid-summer west London dub and ragga, sophisticated pop and first wave post-punk agitation.”

This year she’s released her second studio album (called Seeking Thrills) and it has a totally different feel. You might call it alternative pop. Calling it “pop” doesn’t really do the album justice though. It’s more complex than that. One thing you can say without a doubt is that every song will make you want to get on the dance floor.

On the mixtape, we’ve also featured a track from Kraak & Smaak’s new album, Pleasure Centre. It’s the title track from the record and it sounds like a cross between Röyksopp, Todd Terje and Kruder & Dorfmeister. The track starts off really minimal, with just some wood block for percussion. Slowly the melody builds up and up and up.  And the melody is this fantastic combination of arabic sounding strings and 80s style synths.

The last song we’d like to call out on the mix is from a German marching band called MEUTE (pronounced “Moy-ta”). The band composes techno songs using marching band instruments. Last month on the blog we featured a video of the band covering a deadmau5 song. It’s amazing to see how the band has taken a song, and a whole genre of music — a genre which has traditionally been associated with computers — and reinterpreted it using real instruments. Just drums and brass, no computers.

There’s something so simple about that kind of analogue reinterpretation. It’s a minimal approach to a genre that already prides itself as being minimal. And In one clever move, they’ve been able to free electronic music from the DJ desk and overhaul the image of marching bands across the world.

Check that video out from last month, and look out for their song to appear towards the end of the mix.

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This month’s mixtape includes new music from Big Wild, Modeselektor, Overmono, Dark Sky, Floating Points, and Leon Vynehall. There’s an Anderson .Paak remix, a collaboration between Nightmares On Wax and Fat Freddy’s Drop, and a badass new track from HAAi as well. The mix is wrapped up in two new songs from one of our favorite artist, Amon Tobin. After years of releasing music, the Brazilian producer embarked on an eight year hiatus. So you can just imagine how excited we were to learn that he released not one, but two albums last year.

It’s a bonus mixtape for Christmas! An 80s Christmas Mixtape.

I grew up in the 1980s and for me, the 80s had some of the best Christmas music. A lot of it still feels fresh today. I mean… it’s not Christmas until you have “Christmas Wrapping” by the Waitresses blaring out the radio. And “Last Christmas” by Wham! C’mon. Christmas songs don’t get better than that. And the video for that song! George Michael and his pals retreating to a painfully cheesy 80s ski chalet. Everyone’s hair is ridiculously big and floppy and beautiful. Everything about that song is great.

Speaking of Christmas song videos. There are some seriously good ones out there. Have you ever seen the one from “I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday” by Wizzard? It features a badly lip-syncing wizard Santa who looks like he’s just come back from a music festival. Presumably, special effects weren’t created when they made that video. Check that one out for a laugh.

Then there is the slightly awkward but brilliant video featuring Bing Crosby and David Bowie. Bing Crosby isn’t just a musical legend, he owned the Christmas category back in the day. On this rendition of “Peace on Earth,” Bing and Bowie get together in a past-meets-present collaboration. The song is great.

What I find funny about the video is how wooden the premise feels. It tries to create a Christmas scene where Bing Crosby is taking care of some stately home in England. When Bowie knocks on the door asking if he can play the piano, Crosby ushers him in. Neither of them know who each other are.

Weirdly, the stereotypical cultural roles are reversed; Crosby is playing the polite and deferential Brit when Bowie calls him the butler, while Bowie is acting like a talk-before-you-think American. It’s like a bad porno. You find yourself thinking: “enough acting, cut to the music.”

Nearly 30 years later in 2010, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly remade the video (and rerecorded the song). I’m not sure which one is funnier.

But this mixtape isn’t about the videos. It’s about great Christmas music from the 1980s. So I suggest you settle down into a cozy spot and make yourself a hot drink. Then pop this Christmas mixtape on.

And listen, if that 80s sound is not what you are looking for during Christmas, you should check out some of our Christmas Mixtapes from previous years. If you want to go highbrow, you can check out our Classical Christmas Mixtape, or if you want to go jazzy, have a listen to our Big Band Christmas Mixtape. We’ve also got A LoFi Christmas, A Whiskey Soaked Indie Rock Christmas Mixtape, or The Christmas Mixtape 2000!

Either way, from all of us at The New LoFi, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

Disclaimer: maybe not all of the songs are from the 1980’s. When I put this playlist together, I picked a bunch of songs that encapsulate the music that I remember from Christmastime back in the 80’s. However, some songs from the 70’s might have slipped into the mix. John Lennon’s song “Happy Xmas” for example. Or Bruce Springsteen’s song “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” from 1976. But they all feel like the 80’s. So even though “Step Into Christmas” by Elton John was recorded in the 70’s, it was still playing on repeat on the radio in the 80’s. So it felt very 80’s to me.

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To compliment the winter season, the music for this month’s mixtape is more intimate. As the season winds down, the music seems to have done the same. 

To start the mix we’ve included a couple of new songs from Toro y Moi’s new project: Soul Trash. The project was originally released as a free dropbox download / Instagram tape drop. What’s interesting about this project is that it’s the first time that we’ve heard music from Toro y Moi that sounded more like a demo than a finished product. And this is worthy of note because Toro y Moi usually has a very tight production style. So having the oppurtunity to hear him working out things in this style — seeing the ‘work in progress’ — gives you an interesting insight into how he creates music.

The mixtape continues with some soulful experimental jazz from the Ishmael Ensemble, Sam Wilkes and this dude called  Ernie Hawkes and the Soul Investigators. The album cover art features Ernie hawks in Native American garb, posing on top of a massive civil war era canon. It’s friggin awesome, and the music is too.

The album is called “Scorpio Man,” and  the track we’ve included is called “Journey to the Bottom.” It features a funky soul sound that could have been pulled straight out of a 70s crime movie. Or a 70s porn. Depends how you interpret it. 

The soul and jazz blends into synths and beats with some new tracks from Floating Points, Bonobo, Overmono and this producer from Texas called Donovan Jones (aka Black Taffy). 

Black Taffy’s mixing style has got some fantastic unexpected samples that blend eastern sounds with western hip hop influences. He grew up with the southern Pentecostal church which has also inspired his sound in some ways.

The mix finishes with an American composer who lives in London called Carly Paradis. She’s been part of the team behind the theme music for well known TV and movies like Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan and Line of Duty. This year she’s created a new album called  Nothing Is Something. We’re including the first track off that album. The track is called “The Crushing Weight Of History,” and it’s epic.

Hope you enjoy this month’s mixtape. We’ll see you again next year!

The Monthly Mixtape is now available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and other podcast providers. Or check out The Infinite Mixtape on Spotify — a playlist that collects every song ever used in a Monthly Mixtape.

To celebrate the month of November, we’ve got a brand new TNLF Mixtape with over an hour of the best weird and wonderful music.

And while “weird and wonderful” new music is what we are all about at The New LoFi, this mix might be too random even for us! But hey, we’re just giving you the music that is coming out now and mashing it up into an eclectic mix for your listening pleasures.

The point is: if you are mostly into accessible pop music, this mix is probably not for you. If however, you enjoy going off the beaten track of well known artists and popular music, then go get your headphones right now.  

The mix begins with the first track off of Sampa The Great’s debut album: The Return. The track’s called “Mwana” and it features Mwanje Tembo, Theresa Mutale Tembo and the Sunburnt Soul Choir. We’ve also included an interlude off the album later on in the mix. but you really should go out and buy this album. It’s absolutely spectacular from start to finish

Sampa the Great leads into about 15 minutes of jazz music. But this isn’t your parents style of jazz. This is jazz from today. Jazz that is filled with experimental percussion and deep house electronic vibes. This is jazz being reinvented.

Leading the charge on this journey in England is a South London-based musician called Joe-Armon Jones. We’ve included a couple of tracks from his popular EP called “Idiom” on the mix which he recorded with fellow musician and longtime collaborator, Maxwell Owin. But last month, Jones released his debut solo album entitled Starting Today. If you like what you hear on this mix, you should go get yourself that album.

The jazz continues across the equator with some music from a Sydney-based producer that goes by the name of Godriguez. For the past half decade Godriguez has been operating under the radar producing tripped out jazz-inspired beats and scratchy ambient melodies to keep your head nodding. Most of the music he’s released under his own name has been created on a series of eight “Beat-Tapes.” Each tape includes one 30 to 40 minute continuos track that spans a range of sounds including South American guitar, African, jazz, lo-fi electronic, Polynesian, Flamenco, ambient and traditional Egyptian music. For this month’s mixtape, we’ve included a cut from Beat Tape 8.

Towards the middle of the mixtape, the jazz blends into what can only be described as hip hop inspired house music. It all begins with a Los Angeles producer called Channel Tres.

Tres grew up in Los Angeles. Specifically Compton; a neighborhood known for being a breeding ground for many well known West Coast rappers. His sound is unquestionably influenced by 90s West Coast rap, but reimagined through the lens of classic Detroit house. Add the sultry voice that Channel Tres possesses and you’ve created something very unique indeed.

At the end of this summer, Channel Tres released his second EP entitled Black Moses. The five track EP features Tres using his Barry White-esque voice to summon the soulful era of the 70s. We’ve included two tracks off of the Black Moses EP and one remix he created for Toro y Moi’s track, “Who I Am.”

 If you’ve made it to this point in the mix and you are still listening, then you might be ready for the last half. This is where the weird really gets ramped up.

It begins with A collection of Indian, highlife and Arabic electronic music from around the world before moving on to some experiments in percussive electronic compliments of the Whities label.

For the secret tracks, we’ve included some music from Brian Shimkovitz’s cassette deck. Brian Shimkovitz is the man behind this music blog called 
“Awesome Tapes From Africa.” It’s the culmination of over a decade of traveling across Africa in order to bring cassette tape versions of the music he’s found back home. The cassette tapes make a nice physical token to mark his journey but they are a practicality as well. Most music is recorded, sold and traded with cassettes around Africa, making it the medium of choice when it comes to sharing and transporting music. The art work is pretty fantastic as well. Check out our post on Awesome Tapes of Africa to see all the really interesting artwork. Check out the sleeve cover for Professor Rhythm’s tapes.

Admittedly, this month’s mixtape is pretty random. But it’s all amazing if you’ve got an open ear.

I don’t know what it is about Fall that makes me feel like listening to indie music. Maybe there is more indie music produced in the Autumn months? Maybe it’s that stripped back sound that compliments the season getting crisper and leaves falling…. it’s like nature is stripping back.

Whatever it is, we’ve started the mixtape off with some indie music. There’s a collaboration between two indie artists that we’ve covered a couple of times on the website separately called Yoke Lore and NVDES. This time they got together to make this track called “Everybody wants to be loved” and it’s an absolute anthem!

There’s also a track from Swedish indie producer called Joel Wästberg (aka sir WAS). We’ve included a track from his upcoming album Holding Onto A Dream which features a collaboration with Little Dragon which is pretty ace.

The indie music continues with an Austin, Texas-based artist called Mat Davidson (aka Twain). He’s just released a new album called 2 E.P.s which is a collection of demos that Davidson performed and recorded inside a van.

The album was originally released as a plain yellow cassette tape. (So LoFi!) One side of the tape is called the New Miami Sound EP (that’s the unreleased material. The other side, the B-side of the tape, is the other EP — it’s called the Alternator EP and that’s the songs he recorded in a van.

I’m including the first single off of the New Miami Sound EP; it’s called “Death (or S.F.?).”

The indie music blends right into the next section of the mixtape which is filled with jazz. This month has been really good for discovering new jazz. There’s a song from this Swiss band called L’Eclair called “Endless Dave” and it’s a twelve minute journey into some pretty funky psychedelic jazz.

The band recorded this album by retreating to the the swiss alps and locking themselves up in a mountain retreat. It’s pretty amazing.

There’s also a track off this new(ish) album called Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar. The record was composed by these two guys called Sam out in LA. Sam Gendel and Sam Wilkes. Additionally, we’ve included a track that Sam Gendel recorded solo (not a part of the Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar) that is this really trippy electronic / saxophone reinterpretation of “Pure Imagination” — you know, the song from Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory.

The jazz on the mixtape then starts to get mixed in with a bit of African influence with a track from Mulatu Astatke. This guy is the “godfather” of Ethiopian Jazz. The track comes to us thanks to the work that a Lebanese producer called Ernesto Chahoud. Chahoud has spent years searching through old record collections for the very best Ethiopian music. The track we’ve included on the mixtape comes off of Chahoud’s 24-track double LP called Taitu. One LP is called “Ethiopian Stompers.” The other LP is called “Ethiopian Clappers.” It’s a compilation of all the best 1970s dance-floor bangers.

The mixtape rounds off with some fantastic African influenced electronic music including a new one from our fave english producer Dark Sky. There are a bunch of tracks from the Whities label: Nathan Micay, Overmono. And finally, there is a track from Korean producer Hunee which has an absolutely stinking dirty bassline. You’re gonna love it.

What’s up mixtape aficionados? September is here, and with it comes a new mixtape. This month’s mix includes sound from all over the place. From Scandinavia to Southern California. From South America to East Africa. 
There is a very world music feel to this months mix. And by “world music” I don’t mean the genre. There is just a wide range of sound that doesn’t necessarily come from the Westernized catalogue of pop music.

The mixtape begins with a band from London called Snapped Ankles. Their music was introduced to me by fellow TNLF contributor Chris B last month, and their album “Stunning Luxury” has been on heavy rotation here at The New LoFi for the last few weeks.  The four-piece band are also known to dress up like trees on stage when they play live.  It sounds pretty bonkers, but then again, their music is pretty bonkers. 

The mix starts off with the first single off of their latest album. It’s called “Pestisound (Moving out)” and it’s hard not to do a little hop around the room when you are listening to it. I’ve also closed out the mixtape with one of their songs called “Come play the trees” which embraces more of their electronic side. so the mix begins and ends with Snapped Ankles. Most mix makers wouldn’t put two songs from the same band on one mix, much less start and end a mix with the same band, but that’s how we do it here on the TNLF Mixtape.

Snapped Ankles are followed up by a track by Tommy Guerrero.  Tommy was a famous skateboarder in the 80s and 90s but now he’s making some incredible guitar music inspired by the deserts of the south west United states.  When I first came across Tommy’s music, I thought “this name sounds familiar” but I couldn’t remember where I’d heard his music. After a little research, I realized it was the same Tommy Guerrero that I had grown up to watching on skateboard videos with Tony Hawk and Rodney Mullen. I couldn’t believe that a guy who was at the top of his game in one thing like skateboarding, was now an incredible musician. Amazing. 

I’m including a track off of his album The Endless Road called “El Camino Negro.” For me, the slow wandering guitar summons up tumble weeds, cowboys and the desert. The music video for the track is beautifully shot. Go read the full post to see the video and some of the old school skateboarding clips of Tommy as well.

The mixtape also has songs from Klaves, Sommer, Invisible Minds and a single from Maria Usbeck’s new album, Envejeciendo.

There is a sweet little electronic interlude in the middle of the mix as well. It’s from London-based producers Krywald & Farrer and it includes two samples from their “Persies Edits.”  The Persies Edits are a collection of EPs that feature an selection of reworked  dance floor gems. these are like old disco tracks, or east african party tunes that Krywald & Farrer beef up and spin into house. What’s even cooler is that all of the EPs are white label vinyls… each one only saw 500 go to press. Nuts!

Happy August everybody. This month we have an extended mixtape which is filled with two hours of songs that were posted to the blog last month.

You can think of this mix like an old school mixtape that has an A-side and a B-side. The A-side is heavily influenced with music found south of the equator. Afro-Caribbean, Brazilian, and music from parts of west Africa that conjure up sunny summer vibes.

For example, we kick the mixtape off with a track by Brazilian guitarist Fabiano Do Nascimento called “Mantis” which is influenced by the Afro-Brazilian culture that arose after the Portuguese colonization of Brazil. The song transports you to The Amazon rainforest with sounds of birds and insects and traditional Brazilian guitar. It’s a great atmospheric track that will ease you into the mix.

Then we move from Brazil to Mexico with a mariachi version of Elohim’s track “Hallucinating” where we continue the horn theme with Inspired & the Sleep’s new single “Getting Through.”

We round off the “A-side” of the mix with 30 mins of Afro-Caribbean music —- and it all starts with a track called “Brand New Revolution” which we were introduced to on last month’s installment of “What We Are Listening To”. If you haven’t heard of “What We Are Listening To” you should check it out. It’s a monthly column that highlights the musical tastes of aspiring artists — people that have a day job but make music as a side hustle. Specifically people in the media and advertising industry. There’s something about people who work in media. Most of us here at The New LoFi work in media or advertising in some shape or form and we’ve found that a disproportionate amount of people in the industry have a secret passion for music. We’re all really just closet musicians, DJs and producers.

The B-side of the mixtape is all about hip hop and house music. We start off with a mixture of two British hip hop artists. I just love the hip hop coming out of England right now and these two artists are a great example of how the Brits are pushing the genre. The first one is a duo from London who call themselves Subculture Sage. Their latest album is called Niccolo’s Dead but I’ve selected a few tracks from all of their albums including an older song called “1=1=1.” These two guys are definitely influenced by the golden era of hip hop but they experiment with other sounds too.

The Subculture Sage tracks are paired with another British hip hop artist based in Brighton called Ocean Wisdom. He’s like the second coming of Wu Tang clan. Similar to Wu Tang, Ocean Wisdom has got a crew called “The Four Owls.” He’s got sort of a niche background as well. Similar to how Wu Tang were from Staten Island while most of the other New York rappers were coming out of Brooklyn and the Bronx, Ocean is from a seaside town called Brighton on the south coast of England while most of the British rappers are coming out of South London and Croydon and places like that. His sound is also pretty niche like Wu Tang’s was back in the day. It’s weird to think of Wu Tang like this now, but back in the day, they were nerdy. They weren’t just rapping about hoes, money and cars all the time and they took a lot of inspiration from counter culture movements like Kung Fu movies and stuff like that.

So when I see Ocean Wisdom spitting lyrics with an owl mask on and making owl noises in the chorus, It reminds me of how much I loved Wu Tang. Then I heard Ocean Wisdoms track “Ting Dun” where he is joined by Method Man and my theory was complete.

But all of this comparison doesn’t mean he’s not a serious lyricist in his own right. Or he doesn’t have the skills. This guy has a wicked fast tongue. In fact, His song “Walkin’” was noted as having been delivered faster than Eminem’s song: “Rap God.” Ocean managed to fit 4.45 words per second in his track compared to the 4.31 words per second Eminem fit in “Rap God.” If you grew up in the 90s and you listened to Jurassic 5 and Tribe and De La Soul, then you’ll like ocean wisdom. So the B-side if this tape features a little hip hop mix off between these two artists, Ocean Wisdom and Subculture Sage.

The B-side of the mix ends with 20 minutes of house, including a sweet track from Harry Wolfman called “SMBC”. I got to see Wolfman at El Dorado last month and this track was the one that transported me back to his set. That’s followed by an absolute corker by Berlin based producer Michael Greene (aka Fort Romeau) called “Secrets and Lies.” It’s one of those 10 minute tracks that switch it up half way through to sound totally different.

The whole mix ends with a remastered version of Brian Eno’s lunar lament: “Like I Was A Spectator” – a track created decades ago to celebrate the Apollo moon landing and reworked this year to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the trip. It’s pretty far out, and it’s a great way to wrap everything up.

The July mixtape is about three things: sun, fun, and dirty mother-f-ing beats. Summer is in full swing here in the northern hemisphere so it’s time for some good old-fashioned mixtape.

Let’s talk about what you can expect from this month’s mix. First off, we’ve broken some rules. We’ve been told that when making mixtapes, you are NOT allowed to repeat artists. We mostly follow that rule, but this month I decided to totally throw that rule out the window.

So for example, we’ve selected 3 tracks from Cristiano Crisci’s Dig Delve Damn album. Cristiano is the man behind Clap! Clap! and for this album he visited the Dutch Audio Archives in Holland where he went through thousands of field recordings dating back to the 1920’s! He was able to find some excellent vocals and instrumental tracks recorded in the various Dutch ex-colonies from around the world and then weave those sounds into his recordings. It’s really pretty amazing.

The next repeating artist is Lizzo. Now, Lizzo is a bit on the “pop music” end of the spectrum for this mixtape — and The New LoFi in general — we are kind of an “anti-pop” website here at TNLF. However, we’ve included Lizzo’s single “Boys” in order to include two remixes of the track. One remix from an artist called Black Caviar and the other from Dave Audé. So while it might start off sounding like Pop music, the remixes take it somewhere deep into the house world.

And once we go house, there is no going back! That’s why we installed the FISHER track next. I was in a club in Amsterdam last weekend and I heard his song “Losing it” three times in one night! Which is pretty impressive considering it came out a year ago. But It is still an absolute banger. That big harbour horn on the drop… the really tight apache helicopter percussion…. I’m sure this is going to be on heavy rotation at all of the festivals this summer.

Next we’ve included two Modeselektor tracks back to back. Both from their new album Who Else. I was able to see them perform most of the album live last month in Portugal at NOS Primavera and These guys are just killing it! They’ve been producing music for 20 years now and it appears like they have no plans on slowing down. This is their fourth studio album and the way it blends the worlds of hip hop, metal and experimental music into electronic makes for something very unique. Put this album on and tell me that you don’t feel like an absolute boss afterwards.

Anyway! We hope that you enjoy this month’s mixtape as much as we do (despite the fact that we broke the “repeating artist mixtape” rule).

And as always, if you like one of the artists you hear, please go out and support them by buying some of their music.

Until next month….

Although it’s still technically spring, today felt a lot like summer has arrived (at least in the northern hemisphere, sorry Australia). To celebrate, we’ve put together a mixtape filled with summer sounds and deep house beats.

But before I tell you about the music, I wanted to address some concerns that a few people have had about the mixtape. A couple listeners have complained about the audio quality of last month’s mixtape. They claimed that the audio quality wasn’t the best during certain tracks….and well, they’re right.

But here’s the thing: the monthly mixtape was never meant to be hi-fidelity audio. This podcast is supposed to be more of a sampler. The idea for it was based on actual old school cassette tapes with mixes on them. Mixtapes were the original lofi way to create mixes. I remember sitting by the radio with my finger hovering over the “record” button waiting for the latest single to come on. Compilations would take days, sometimes weeks to create. And then after you’ve collected all of the latest tracks, you could mix up the order by transferring on to another cassette. There was something lovely and tactile about the whole analogue process. The songs you chose, the artwork you could create on the blank cassette tape case….

It wasn’t about excellent audio quality — vinyl records were still far better audio quality back then — it was about curating a mix. It was about sending a message to that girl in High School that you had a crush on or it was about putting together a mix of all the coolest latest tracks so that you could look cool in front of your friends…. that’s what this podcast is all about.

Sure, it might not be the best sound quality but it’s not about that. It’s about discovering new music. And if you hear something you really like on this mixtape, you should go out and support the artist that produced it by going out and buying the hi-fidelity copy. Go buy the track in vinyl or digitally and support one of the artists featured here.

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Let’s talk about the music featured on this month’s podcast. The mix starts off with some summery vibes from Photay, Hubbabubbaklubb, Hot Chip, and The Mauskovic Dance Band and a brand new track from Tame Impala. The combination of sunny west african influences mixed with pop house is the kind of music that gets me in the summer state of mind.

As we get into the meat of the mixtape, the sound starts leaning more towards the electronic side of the spectrum. There’s an Anderson .Paak rework, a Nightmares On Wax remix of “Russia” by Fat Freddy’s Drop and a double dose of Justin Faust’s single, “Spellbound.”

We were first introduced to “Spellbound” by Laurence Groom through his Cosmo Disco Set last month. The track is an absolute banger. In this mixtape we pair the original single with an Italio Disco rework.

The mix slows down the pace towards the end by channeling our inner cowboy with Orville Peck’s new single, “Dead of Night.” Reverb-filled slide guitars and a delicate little banjo play you out softly into the sunset.