It's Almost Summer Mix

Summer is getting close and the weather today was (and still is) beautiful - high 80's and blue skies. I loved being able to sit outside in my bathing suit and listen to some music. So I randomly decided to make a mix of some of my favourite songs of summer and sun. These songs are, to me, perpetually "summer"(plus most of them have summer or sun in their titles, but that's just an added bonus).  Listening to them makes me think of those summer sunrises, sunsets - purples, pinks, blues and oranges all intermixing to create that summer sky. Plus that summer heat comes to mind and just that feeling of...the sun on your skin, the rays sinking in...

What are some of your favourite summer songs?

Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes

Brothertiger - Summer House

Com Truise - Sundriped

Dirty Gold - California Sunrise

Washed Out - Feel It All Around

Delorean - Stay Close

Millionyoung - Hammock

Crystal Fighters - In The Summer

Tame Impala - Sundown Syndrome

Caribou - Sun

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Video: Avery Tare // Oliver Twist

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Top 12 Tracks of '09*

*I had all intentions of making this the Top 10 Songs of 2009, but I had hell of a time whittling down this list to 10, so it stays at 12. Kind of.

1. What Would I Want, Sky? – Animal Collective


2. 1901 – Phoenix


3. Brother Sport – Animal Collective/ My Girls – Animal Collective (grouped as one entry because I love them both and wanted them both in the top 10)


4. Feel It All Around – Washed Out


5. Ambling Alp - Yeasayer


6. Dominos – The Big Pink


7. Crystalised – The xx / Islands – The xx (also grouped as one entry because I love them both and wanted them both in the top 10)


8. 11th Dimension - Julian Casablancas


9. Young Hearts Spark Fire – Japandroids


10. Should Have Taken Acid With You - Neon Indian


11. When I Grow Up – Fever Ray


12. Psychic City – YACHT (also check out Classixx's remix right here)

**There are actually 14 tracks on the list. (Yet again, I had a really hard time whittling down).***
***What the hell, I should have just done the top 15. Too late now.

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