This month I’ll be posting between two and three mixes, all of which capture an aspect of “winter in Ithaca.”

Winter in Ithaca lasts from November until…¿? It depends, but the latter months of it (March, April…the first week of May) are definitely the most confusing and distressing. This March it has been both -5 degrees F and 64 degrees F.

The title of this mix, “can’t calm down,” is taken from a song by Hand Habits, Meg Duffy’s solo project, which just put out the album placeholder. Her guitar playing can be heard on plenty of the other songs on this mix, and the whole thing is part of an unofficial series of mixes with more guitars and fewer bleeps and bloops ( ¿”guitars > bleeps/bloops”?).

Photo credit: me, taken outside my apartment a week ago.

Tracklist:

1) “Homeward Bound” —Simon & Garfunkel — Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
2) “Thank You” — Bonnie Raitt — Bonnie Raitt
3) “Kingston” — Faye Webster — Atlanta Millionaires Club
4) “I Was a Window (feat. Dustin Payseur)” — SASAMI — SASAMI
5) “Nobody” — Mac DeMarco — Here Comes The Cowboy
6) “Seven Words” — Weyes Blood — Front Row Seat to Earth
7) “Souvenir” — boygenius — boygenius – EP
8) “Blood Bank” — Bon Iver — Blood Bank
9) “Unfucktheworld” — Angel Olsen — Burn Your Fire For No Witness
10) “Blue, Pt. II” — Waxahatchee — Cerulean Salt
11) “can’t calm down” — Hand Habits — placeholder
12) “Paralysed” — Nilüfer Yanya — Miss Universe
13) “Holding On” — The War On Drugs — A Deeper Understanding
14) “Two Slow Dancers” — Mitski — Be The Cowboy