Do you want to break my heart? Yeah! Oh yeah!

Swan Lake/All Fires. Sitting in the autumn leaves, and the grass is wet, and so are our hands.
Hefner/ Hymn for Cigarettes. Smoking while laying in bed, a vertical line—not minding the cover of “Heartbreaker”
Pastels/ Yoga. Doing stretches towards the sun in a winter-lit kitchen, arms raised and legs tight.
Billy Bragg/ Accident waiting to happen. A bright computer screen, a gin and tonic.
Helen Love/ We Love You. Sneakers and mud in Ohio.
Grizzly Bear/ Knife (Girl Talk remix). Caffeine overload, and headbobbing, a misguided Charleston—none of these things make any sense.
Arab Strap/ One four seven one. The morning, and choosing to go back to sleep.
Of Montreal/ Grolandic (edit). A car, Tennessee, a pharmacy.
Beaten Awake/ Browns Town. Sidewalks at 5 AM, summer exudes from boring pavement, and screaming.
Look Blue, Go Purple/ I don’t want you anyway. Sentimental neuroses.
I’m from Barcelona/ This boy. An orange bedroom, and then one with trim painted the wrong color.
All Girl Summer Fun Band/ Later operator. An airplane back, a convincing. Lies.
Kimya Dawson/ Fire. But, but. Everyone I know is a liar.
Pipettes/ I love you. I mean that.
Bound Stems/ Wake up, ma and pa are gone. Lovely city streets, right after dusk.
Magnetic Fields/ Yeah! Oh yeah! EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS SONG IS AMAZING, except for the song itself: “Though I need you more than air/ is it true you just don’t care/ are you having an affair? Yeah! Oh Yeah!”
Manhattan Love Suicides/ Crush whatever. Saturday night.
Joanna Newsom/ Cosmia. Monday night, and airport security lines.
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone/ Graceland. Headphones and static, and a reason to believe.
Tullycraft/ 8 great ways. Love, love, love.
Lovenotes and Lithium/ When Love Gets in the Way. Accuracy.
Deerhoof/ Come See the Duck. Absurdity.
Tom Waits/ Goonight Irene. Lullaby, of the terrifying kind, under Little Mermaid sheets which look like water.
Readyville/ Life is Rough. Psychotic behavior, embodied and justified, to some degree.
World of Pooh/ Someone wants you dead. Accuracy, again.
Dressy Bessy/ Side 2. The library stacks, and music squeezing out too loudly.
Cat Power/ He War. A rushed choice, a regret, a triumph.
Hello Saferide/ The Quiz. Don’t settle for less, but on a night like this, how can you want too much?