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It’s been a long journey and you’re traveling by foot. Night came sooner than you expected, and for miles all you can see are a few menacing trees waiting on endless plains. But a light up the road promises safety. It turns out to be an old Inn. “All of our rooms are vacant,” you’re told by the innkeeper. “Strange,” you say, “I’d expect at least a few travelers to come out this way.” The innkeeper shows almost no sign of interest as she shakes her weathered head.

Sunlight floods your ancient room, as you lay down for two days, three days, reading a few books, always thinking of leaving. Someone checks into the room next door. He’s a runaway ranch hand, and he teaches you all the country dances. You dance until dawn in the cracked road behind the unlikely Inn. You wake up at 3pm by the rusted swimming pool. The sight of Ruffles bag from the preceding decade convinces you that it’s finally time to leave. You pack up your books and the wicker figurine souveniers that the innkeeper has guilted you into buying, and before you go, the ranch hand kisses you and slips an unmarked CD-R into your bag. Now take a listen.

1. Hiro Yanagida - The Legend of Zelda
2. Raccoon - Quart of Oil
3. Jem & The Holograms - We Can Make a Difference
4. Scott Walker - The Seventh Seal
5. The Field Mice - Emma’s House
6. Belle and Sebastian - Heaven in the Afternoon
7. The Idle Race - Morning Sunshine
8. Julieta Venegas - Seria Feliz
9. Faye Wong - Sky
10. Jeanette - Me Olvidaras
11. The Carpenters - We’ve Only Just Begun