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José Gonzalez

Track Listing: 1. Angelo Badalamenti - Just You 2. Fast Computers - Invisibility 3. Shocking Pinks - End of the World 4. Digitalism - Pogo 5. Link Wray - Fallin’ Rain 6. Yoko Ono - I Felt Like Smashing My Face in a Clear Glass Window 7. Jens Lekman - Into Eternity 8. Art Brut - Nag Nag Nag Nag Nag 9. Glass Candy - Candy Castle 10. Tobacco - Untitled (excerpt from Fucked Up Friends) 11. José Gonzalez - Down the Line 12. Beat Happening - What’s Important 13. Devendra Banhart - Shabop Shalom 14. Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa

Perhaps, like in the picture above, you live in a huge loft full of antiques. You’re chilling out with your gay lover, Franz. Imagining that’s the case, you’ll say to him, “Franz, hand me the new Future Shipwreck podcast.” You’ll relax on a Baroque chaise lounge and Franz will fold his legs on the floor beside you. While he’s flipping through Life magazine, you’ll run your hand through his hair, and the first thing you’ll hear will be a campy, haunting love song from an episode of “Twin Peaks”. That’ll be followed by a fun indie pop tune by the band Fast Computers, who hail from Portland; and a song reminiscent of early New Order by New Zealand natives Shocking Pinks.

Shocking Pinks and Fast Computers

Abruptly, you’ll transition into a melancholy dance beat by German electronic duo Digitalism, and then a world-weary folk ballad from Link Wray’s stripped-down ’70s recordings. Before you know it, you’ll be in the middle of a fun song that calls upon the 1950s— an angst-filled smash hit from Yoko Ono’s Approximately Infinite Universe. Jens Lekman won’t be too far off, with another catchy jingle from his brand new album, and then you’ll rock out to some sassy British music by Art Brut.

Link Wray, Yoko Ono and Beat Happening

Glass Candy will take you back to Digitalism’s languid dance floor, and Tobacco (of Black Moth Super Rainbow) will bridge the gap to a new recording by José Gonzalez, the Argentinian Swede renowned for his haunting acoustic guitar strumming. Indie rock hall of famers Beat Happening will play a short but sweet verse before Devendra Banhart continues the ’50s revival with a groovy cut from his brand new album. Finally, New York favorites Vampire Weekend will send you off with a sunny afro-beat-influenced rumination on Peter Gabriel.

Glass Candy and Digitalism