1. MIKE MCDERMOTT/ SHARON VAN ETTEN 

     I fell in love with Sharon Van Etten last Christmas Eve in a sort of irrevocable way— the wrestling in her voice, the lyrics. ‘Because I was in Love’ got me through a lot of impatient nights.
2. WANDERING STAR/ POLICA
3. SEND HIS LOVE TO ME/ PJ HARVEY
4. COUNTRY AIR/ THE BEACH BOYS
     As a child, I hated the Beach Boys.
5. DOES NOT SUFFICE/ JOANNA NEWSOM
6.DEAD SOULS (UNIVERSITY OF LONDON UNION LIVE 8)/ JOY DIVISION
7. THE HARDEST WALK/ THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
     Just Like Honey will always typify for me that blinding attraction it’s possible to develop instantly to a new sound. I don’t remember much of hearing it for the first time on the radio— just that I was seventeen and driving my mom’s van poorly, praying horrible-ravenously that the DJ would read the title before the break.
8. BE MY BABY/ THE RONETTES
     I actually heard this for the first time last night.

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