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Infinite Summer: A CMI Mix

Infinite-Summer

Dig your feet into the sand until you reach the cool layer just below the surface. Feel the sweat of your beer bottle slowly drip over your knuckles. Smell the hot charcoal and cool cocoa butter. Lean your head back, close your eyes, and watch the sun through the pink of your eyelids.

Summer is gone but not forgotten. Here are some tunes to help you remember.

Download: CMI’s Infinite Summer

Tracklist:

  1. The Drums – Let’s Go Surfing
  2. Surf City – Headin’ Inside
  3. The Magic Kids – Hey Boy
  4. Rainbow Bridge – Big Wave Rider
  5. My Teenage Stride – Naval Gazing
  6. Fluffy Lumbers – Cruisers
  7. pow wow! – So Weird
  8. Family Portrait – Mega Secrets
  9. Holiday Shores – Phones Don’t Feud
  10. Dum Dum Girls – Ship of Love
  11. Ganglians – Voodoo
  12. The Love Language – Lalita
  13. Kurt Vile – Freeway
  14. Real Estate – Beach Comber
  15. Beach Fossils – Vacation
  16. Girls – Lust For Life
  17. Neon Indian – Deadbeat Summer

The Pastels & Tenniscoats – “Vivid Youth”

The coming months will see not one, but two new releases from Stephen Pastel and company. Let your inner pop geek rejoice.

Best of 2009 So Far (Take 2: Adam’s Picks)

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Devon already weighed in with his favorites of the year so far. I considered being patient (we’re 2/3 of the way there – dammit!), but here’s my list anyway.

Image courtesy of freeloosedirt.

Ducktails – Landrunner

Not to be confused with Uncle Scrooge and his mischievous nephews, Ducktails chooses not to cut through the late summer haze but instead embrace it like a long and sweaty hug. Landscapes LP out now.

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Best of 2009 So Far…

So 2009 is a little more than half-way over (and there was much rejoicing). Anyhow, with the year rapidly moving by, there existed a need to document the records that have been occupying my turntable and iPod like the Germans did France circa 1940 [too soon? No, it's never too soon!]. While I did go through the effort of culling the releases of the year into this list; the efforts required to actually reflect enough to number them was far too great only being this far into our orbit around the sun. However, I was willing to expend enough effort to dig around on the internet and find videos for all of the records – hooray. Without further ado, the list:

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