idyll

The sixth installment of our column, "Mixes from the Editor." Every month, our Editor-in-Chief will compile the songs she's been vibing and present them as a playlist for your listening pleasure.

This month's playlist, inspired by Stranger Things, is perfect for dance parties at 2 am. Listen to "idyll," our November '17 mix, on 8tracks, and find the tracklist below.


i. SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO - REMASTERED by THE CLASH

ii. YOU SPIN ME ROUND (LIKE A RECORD) by DEAD OR ALIVE

iii. TIME AFTER TIME by CYNDI LAUPER

iv. BEAT IT - SINGLE VERSION by MICHAEL JACKSON

v. WHAT I LIKE ABOUT YOU by THE ROMANTICS

vi. TAKE ON ME by A-HA

vii. GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN by CYNDI LAUPER

viii. HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF - 2009 REMASTERED VERSION by DURAN DURAN

ix. MANIC MONDAY by THE BANGLES

x. ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE by SCORPIONS

xii. HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT - 1999 DIGITAL REMASTER by PAT BENATAR

xiii. ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST by QUEEN

xiv. DON'T STOP BELIEVIN' by JOURNEY

xv. WALKING ON SUNSHINE by KATRINA & THE WAVES

xvi. DON'T YOU (FORGET ABOUT ME) by SIMPLE MINDS

xvii. AFRICA by TOTO

xviii. SHOUT by TEARS FOR FEARS

blurred-out

The fifth installment of our column, "Mixes from the Editor." Every month, our Editor-in-Chief will compile the songs she's been vibing and present them as a playlist for your listening pleasure. Mixes will be named after our EIC's favorite poems.

This month's poem is "sonnet which, unfortunately, will not fit on a post-it note" by isabelthespy:

Remember all the soggy, blurred-out days.
Remember what you know: this is such stuff
as life is made on, which could pass you by
again, which has devised so many ways
to leave you. Make that memory be enough.
It won't be. It may never be. Try.

Listen to "blurred-out," our October '17 mix, on 8tracks, and find the tracklist below.


i. DOWN TO THE SECOND by ZACH BERKMAN

ii. LIGHTS OUT, WORDS GONE by BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB

iii. SIRENS by BEN ABRAHAM

iv. WAITING ROOM by PHOEBE BRIDGERS

v. DOME by FIREWOODISLAND

vi. LET IT GO by THE BOXER REBELLION

vii. KEEPING WARM by WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS

viii. LEVEL UP by VIENNA TENG

ix. WHO WILL CARRY YOU? by ADAM JONES, K.S. RHOADS

x. FERNWEH (SHORE) by ZACH WINTERS

xi. INNERBLOOM - WHAT SO NOT REMIX by RÜFÜS, WHAT SO NOT

xii. CROWDED PLACES by BANKS

xiii. HOLES by LAYLA

large as longing

The fourth installment of our column, "Mixes from the Editor." Every month, our Editor-in-Chief will compile the songs she's been vibing and present them as a playlist for your listening pleasure. Mixes will be named after our EIC's favorite poems.

This month's poem is "The Fragile Vial" by Rumi:

I need a […] language
as large as longing

Listen to "large as longing," our June '17 mix, on 8tracks, and find the tracklist below.

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angel/moth

The third installment of our column, "Mixes from the Editor." Every month, our Editor-in-Chief will compile the songs she's been vibing and present them as a playlist for your listening pleasure. Mixes will be named after our EIC's favorite poems.

This month's poem is "Angels and Moths" by Olena Kalytiak Davis, in And Her Soul Out Of Nothing:

I don’t think I ever loved
that gently. And I’ve never
flown toward a burning
house, hoping, maybe
my faith lay in that
single thing left, 
in that smoldering filigree. 
I never reminisce
a sorrow that delicately shaped.

Listen to "angel/moth," our May '17 mix, on 8tracks, and find the tracklist below.

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swarm

The second installment of our column, "Mixes from the Editor." Every month, our Editor-in-Chief will compile the songs she's been vibing and present them as a playlist for your listening pleasure. Mixes will be named after our EIC's favorite poems.

This month's poem is "Beast Litany" by Carly Joy Miller, originally published in Nashville Review:

Desire, war coax, 
thrum of God

Listen to "swarm," our April '17 mix, on 8tracks, and find the tracklist below.

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bewitching

The first installment of our column, "Mixes from the Editor." Every month, our Editor-in-Chief will compile the songs she's been vibing and present them as a playlist for your listening pleasure. Mixes will be named after our EIC's favorite poems.

This month's poem is "bestiary" by Emily Corwin, originally published in Word Riot:

say: I want to be wrecked
say: in a pasture, darkly bewitch me

Listen to "bewitching," our March '17 mix, on 8tracks, and find the tracklist below.

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