Music to keep you warm

"To me, making a tape is like writing a letter — there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with 'Got to Get You Off My Mind,' but then realized that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straightaway, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you've got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can't have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can't have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you've done the whole thing in pairs and...oh, there are loads of rules."
- Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

Remember the art of the mixtape? This is not a mixtape by Rob Fleming's standards (or Nick Hornby's). It's not a mixtape at all; in fact, it can hardly be called a playlist. But I thought I'd share what I'm listening to this December - some old, some new, and some free for you! In no particular order.

The Kinks - "Lola"
Edward Sharpe & Magnetic Zeros - "Home"
Vampire Weekend - "Horchata"
Mos Def - "Quiet Dog"
Julian Casablancas - "Out of the Blue"
Girls - "Lust for Life"
The Cardigans - "Great Divide"
Squeeze - "Tempted" (you know you're a child of the 90's when ...)
Baby Bash & Frankie J - "Suga Suga" (and speaking of the 90s ...)
Mayer Hawthorne - "Your Easy Lovin' Ain't Pleasin' Nothin'"
Strawberry Alarm Clock - "Incense and Peppermint"
Florence and the Machine - "Kiss with a Fist" and "Falling"
Nneka - "The Uncomfortable Truth"
Lissy Trullie - "Ready for the Floor" (Hot Chip cover)
Mobb Deep x Bob Marley - "Got it Twisted" and "Shook Ones Pt. 2"
Vivian Girls - "Can't Get Over You"
Plastiscines - "Camera"