Youth Lagoon{July}The Year of Hibernation

M83{Midnight City}Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

Gil-Scott Heron & Jamie xx{My Cloud}We’re New Here

Dead Man’s Bones{Lose Your Soul}Dead Man’s Bones

The Walkmen{Blue As Your Blood}Lisbon

F***ed Up{The Other Shoe}David Comes To Life

Women{Eyesore}Public Strain

Panda Bear{Scheherazade}Tomboy

Siriusmo{Einmal in der Woche Schreien}Musaik

SBTRKT{Wildfire}SBTRKT

Kurt Vile{The Creature}Outta Reach EP

Lambchop{If Not I’ll Just Die}Mr. M

Neko Case{Deep Red Bells}Blacklisted

The National{The Geese of Beverly Road}Alligator

Grimes{Genesis}Visions

On the edge of something.

Memoryhouse:Walk With Me:The Slideshow Effect

Sepalcure:See Me Feel Me:Sepalcure

 Lower Dens:Brains:Nootropics

The Walkmen:Torch Song:Lisbon

Sharon Van Etten:Kevin’s:Tramp

Jordan Klassen|Call and Answer|Kindness

Michael Cronin:Get Along:Michael Cronin

The Replacements:Waitress in the Sky:Tim

Mt. Eerie:If We Knew..:Lost Wisdom

Louie Armstrong & His Hot Five:My Heart:Hot Fives & Sevens

John Lennon:Power to the People:Plastic Ono Band

Richard Swift:Du(M)B I:Richard Swift as Onasis

Yo La Tengo:Nothing to Hide:Popular Songs

St. Vincent:Surgeon:Strange Mercy

The Drum:Night Driving:Heavy Liquid

Portishead:Threads:Third

Louie Armstrong & His Hot Five:You’re Next: Hot Fives & Sevens

Penny & the Quarters:You and Me:Eccentric Soul – the Prix Label

Daughn Gibson:In the Beginning:All Hell

It's all been forgiven.

Bruce Springsteen//Reason to Believe//Nebraska

Feist//A Commotion//Metals

Yukon Blonde/Fire//Fire\Water

No Age//Keechie//Nouns

Ray Charles//A Fool For You//Hallelujah I Love Her So

Leonard Cohen//Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye//Songs of Leonard Cohen

Local Natives//World News//Gorilla Manor

Beethoven//Symphony No.5 - Andante Con Moto

James Blake//I Only Know (What I Know)//Klavierwerke EP

Pogo//Go Out And Love Someone//Table Scraps

Alex Winston/Locomotion//Sister Wife

The Walkmen//Stranded//Lisbon

Grizzly Bear//Deep Blue See//Dark Was The Night: A Red Hot Compilation

The National\\Vanderlyle Cry Baby Cry\\High Violet

Nina Simone//Take Me To The Water (I'm Going Back Home)//Priestess of Soul

We’ll be like torches. Torches together hand in hand. See you soon friend.

Menomena//Muscle’n Flo//Friend and Foe

Atlas Sound//Te Amo//Parallax

Digable Planets//Black Ego//Blowout Comb

Braids//Plath Heart//Native Speaker

Bon Iver//Michicant//Bon Iver

Baths//I Just Saw (Raleigh Moncrief cover)

Arcade Fire//My Body Is A Cage//Neon Bible

Fleet Foxes//Bedouin Dress//Helplessness Blues

ANGO//Better For You//Another City Now EP

Chairlift//Sidewalk Safari//Something

Mewithoutyou\\Torches Together\\Catch For Us The Foxes

The Middle East//Beleriand//The Recordings Of The Middle East

The Magician & The Gates Of Love//Shut Eye Bender

Neutral Milk Hotel//Communist Daughter//In The Aeroplane Over The City

War On Drugs//Come To The City//Slave Ambient

The Welcome Wagon//But For You Who Fear My Name//Welcome To The Welcome Wagon

The French I took.

1. Vusi Mahlasela : Say Africa

2. Jamie xx : Far Nearer

3. The Beach Boys : That’s Not Me

4. The Magician & The Gates Of Love : I Want It All

5. Jordan Klassen : Go To Me

6. Fleet Foxes : Lorelai

7. Nina Simone : See Line Woman

8. Braids : Plaith Heart

9. Ray LaMontagne : Burn

10. Edith Piaf : Enfin Le Printemps

11. Carter Tanton : Murderous Joy

12. Bon Iver : Towers

13. Sam Cooke : (What A) Wonderful World

14. Ibrahim Ferrer/Buena Vista Social Club : Qué Bueno Baila Usted

15. Dream Cop : Beach City/Carol I Know

16. Vusi Mahlesala : Ntate Mandela

I’m new here, again.

I’m moving back in with my folks this September; to go back go school. And yet, Squamish is still home. This mix brings a lot of experiences from my second summer here together. Hope you enjoy it, wherever you are.

Titus Andronicus – A More Perfect Union, from The Monitor. No Age – Sleeper Hold, from Nouns. Wye Oak – I Hope You Die, from My Neighbor/My Creator. Fleet Foxes – Someone You’d Admire, from Helplessness Blues. Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here, from I’m New Here. We Are The City – Get Happy, from High School. Baths – Pop Song, from Cerulean. The Tallest Man On Earth – Weather Of A Killing Kind, from the Adult Swim Singles Program. José González – Remain, from Veneer. James Blake – Lindsfarne II, from James Blake. Arcade Fire – Wasted Hours, from The Suburbs. Panda Bear – Last Night At The Jetty, from Tomboy. Grant Lee Buffalo – It’s The Life, from Mighty Joe Moon. Wild Nothing – Summer Holiday, from Gemini. Bon Iver – Beth/Rest, from Bon Iver. Gabriel Faure – Pie Jesu, from his Requiem. The Morning Benders – Promises, from Big Echo.

lenses/california

Summer is (kind of) here. To encourage good weather and warm spirits, here’s a list of songs from a trip I took to Cailfornia with my friends Todd and Claire back in April. Fitting, that the clouds haven’t dissipated since then.

1. “The Staunton Lick,” by Deakin, Lemon Jelly and Simon Franglen, from LemonJelly .KY. 2. “(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay,” by Otis Redding, from The Dock Of The Bay. 3.”Mornin’,” by Star Slinger, from Volume 1. 4. “Wide Eyes,” by Local Natives, From Gorilla Manor. 5. “At Least That’s What You Said,” by Wilco, from A Ghost Is Born. 6. “Land’s End,” by Aidan Knight, from Friendly Fires. 7. “Man I Used To Be,” by k-Os, from Joyful Rebellion. 8. “Autumn Sweater,” by Yo La Tengo, from I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One. 9. “Babe,” by Evenings, from Northern Dorm EP. 10. “?,” by Baths, from Cerulean. 11. “Paper Ships,” by Dead Man’s Bones, from Dead Man’s Bones. 12. “Jesus,” by The Welcome Wagon, from Welcome To The Welcome Wagon. 13. “Even After All,” by Finley Quaye, from Maverick A Strike. 14. “Love More,” by Sharon Van Etten, from Shaking Through. 15. “The Bleeding Heart Show,” by the New Pornographers, from Twin Cinema. 16. “Miles From Nowhere,” by Cat Stevens, from Tea For the Tillerman.

clouds/seattle.

I went to Seattle a few months ago with my friend Todd  to pick our friend Claire up from the bus station. We talked the whole way there and back about life, God and music, and a playlist naturally came out of the day trip. It helped that after we found out a snow storm stopped Claire from getting to the city, we spent a good deal of time in a record store and I bought some new tunes. Here’s a taste of what we showed each other, with a little northwest flavour peppered in.

1. LCD Soundsystem: Dance Yrself Clean (Is This Happening)

2. No Age: Glitter (Everything in Between)

3. Pogo: Alice (Wonderland)

4. Teen Daze: Something (Digital “7 No. 2 – Together b/w Something)

5. Ray Charles: Drown In My Own Tears (Ray Charles)

6. Okkervil River: Unless It’s Kicks (The Stage Names)

7. Arcade Fire: Empty Room (The Suburbs)

8. Fleet Foxes: Tiger Mountain Peasant Song (Fleet Foxes)

9. Mavis Staples: Creep Along Moses (You Are Not Alone)

10. Bo Diddley: Who Do You Love (Bo Diddley)

11. Sufjan Stevens: I Walked (Age Of Adz)

12. Radiohead: I Might Be Wrong (Amnesiac)

13. The National: Afraid Of Everyone (High Violet)

14. The Microphones: Headless Horseman (The Glow Pt. 2)

15. Grizzly Bear: On A Neck, On A Spit (Yellow House)

16. James Blake: Wilhelms Scream (James Blake)

17. Edith Piaf: Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (Éternelle)

snow/colorado.

My friend Allison left us part way through December for her country of origin, namely, America. More specifically, she is now in Veil Colorado, teaching beginners how to ski. I decided to combine a few things here; a bit of Christmas and winter themes, a few songs relating to Colorado, and pictures that will hopefully help make Allison come back to Squamish. Hope you enjoy. Merry Christmas.

The Abramson Singers: Take A Camera (The Abramson Singers). Broken Social Scene: World Sick (Forgiveness Rock Record). Amy Millan: Skinny Boy (Honey From the Tombs). Feist: Sea Lion Woman (The Reminder). Animal Collective: Derek (Strawberry Jam). Nick Drake: Place To Be (Pink Moon). The Welcome Wagon: Up On a Mountain (Welcome to the Welcome Wagon). Elliot Smith: Waltz, No. 1 (XO). Kanye West: Christmas in Harlem (Unreleased). My Morning Jacket: El Caporal (Dark Was The Night: A Red Hot Compilation). Jordan Klassen: Song In Winter (St. Brigid EP). The Mamas & the Papas: California Dreamin’ (California Dreamin’). Apollo Ghosts: Land of the Morning Calm (Avocado Sampler). Miles Davis: Godchild (Birth of Cool). Andrew Bird: Tenuousness (Noble Beast). Aidan Knight: Friendly Fires (Friendly Fires). DM Stith: Be My Baby (Works In Progress). Grizzly Bear: Colorado (Yellow House). Bob Dylan: Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright (The Best of Bob Dylan).

In August I went on a trip with my brother Nick, Nathan Moes, Conrad Dykman, Jordan Klassen, Jocelyn Price, Katy Postlethwaite, and Josh Daignault. We drove from Abbotsford and Squamish to Winnipeg, playing music for people in the evenings while hitting the road by day. Throughout the three weeks we travelled, we became like a short-lived family. These people became very much like brothers and sisters to me. People from across the country showed us hospitality like I had never seen before, and the beauty of the land made me stand in awe of God. The trip goes in the books as one of the greatest experiences of my life.

fences/prairies showcases a few songs that helped me keep this experience in the front of my mind throughout the last months. A couple of them we played for people (“For Jessica,” “Take A Trip”), one of them was written and performed by another musician we met along the way (Andy Shauf’s “In Town,”) and still others are examples of the music we listened, bought, and shared with each other on the road.

Here is the playlist:

1. Jordan Klassen/For Jessica/St. Brigid EP

2. The National/Sorrow/High Violet

3. Shad/Rose Garden/Tsol

4. Aidan Knight/Altar Boys/Versicolour

5. David Bazan/Please, Baby, Please/Curse Your Branches

6. Yo La Tengo/Avalon Or Someone Very Similar/Popular Songs

7. Neil Young/Harvest Moon/Harvest Moon

8. Andy Shauf/In Town/Darker Days

9. The Band/Rag Mama Rag/The Band

10.Delta Spirit/Strange Vine/Ode To Sunshine

11. The Magician & The Gates Of Love/Take A Trip/The Singles

12. Bon Iver/The Wolves (Act 1 & 2)/For Emma, Forever Ago

13. The Abramson Singers/Fool’s Gold/The Abramson Singers

14. The Middle East/Blood/Recordings Of The Middle East EP

15. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings/She Ain’t A Child No More/Learned The Hard Way

16. Beach House/10 Mile Stereo/Teen Dream

17. John Denver/Take Me Home, Country Roads/John Denver’s Greatest Hits

Thank you Nicolas Koole, for all the photographs.