Tag: mixtapes

Last week sosuperperson Sosupersam released a new mixtape beautifully titled We Found Ourselves Lost. Sam cites a Pierre Botardo collage and a, y’know, your standard emotional journey as inspiration for this easy-flowing trip through contemplative sounds.

There’s a lot of me in this, it might not make any sense.  I even sing on it at one point.  I made this for me as a way to clear my head and my heart, but maybe you’ll like it too.

Keep loving,

S

While I’m not going to speculate on the autobiographical details of Sam’s mix, I will say it got me thinking about those songs that become autobiographical to us (in the rhetorical sense). I was discussing Gotye’s almost too beloved “Somebody That I Used to Know” with somebody that I still know. To her, it was empowering for Kimbra. To me, it evoked the same sort of feeling as Postal Service’s “Nothing Better”. I then launched into a month-long cultivation of the ultimate melancholy playlist to the aftermath of a relationship. The playlist keeps growing and then whittling back down because I add and remove songs when they don’t prove to be perfect enough. Thus far, only two tracks have held their ground.

My mind specifically lingers on two good-riddance relationships as this playlist forms:

But! Enough of this sobering talk. Click on the album art or click here to download Sam’s mix in its entirety. Full tracklist below the cut. Continue reading “This is for the jilted tenderoni in you.”