April's mix is female heavy and thematically clustered. It tips off with a track from each of our three most recent Bands To Watch. The remainder features a few songs that are numerically fixated (Brenmar's "Be The One," the return of pulseprogramming with "First They Fire," and Italians Do It Better boss Mike Simonetti's "Third Of The Storms"), a few focused on beginnings (Pure X's "Back Where I Began" and Bill Callahan's "Baby Breath"), and one track itself a beginning (the debut track from Sleep?Over spinoff Boy Friend, "D'Arrest"). Download, tracklist, here:
StereogumMonthly Mix: April 2011 (83.7MB zip)
01 Friends - "Friend Crush"
02 Slowdance - "Spell"
03 Austra - "Lose It"
04 Brenmar - "Be The One"
05 Gang Gang Dance - "Mindkilla"
06 pulseprogramming - "First They Fire"
07 Mike Simonetti - "Third Of The Storms"
08 Boy Friend - "D'Arrest"
09 Pure X - "Back Where I Began"
10 Bill Callahan - "Baby's Breath"
[John Belushi Black Flag fish photo via Aquarium Drunkard]
