A Wintry Mix by @jimhart

Track List

1. Life In a Northern Town (LP Version) - The Dream Academy
2. Holocene - Bon Iver
3. Silver Leaf and Snowy Tears - Superchunk
4. Coming in from the Cold - The Delgados

Playlist

Apple Music - A Wintry Mix

Description

1 - Life in a a Northern Town - this one’s the phoned-in intro, but it’s absolutely a scene-setter, and among the greatest of broad ice-pop tracks.

2 - Holocene - the sparseness of this song 100% means winter for me. There’s little in the song on its face that makes it a winter song, I’ve always taken a lot from the spareness of the landscape of the video, coupled with the spare sound, to just be a defining winter feeling - cool, remote, empty, beautiful

3 - Silver Leaf & Snowy Tears - in which I pander directly to our current musical proctor. But out here we’re digging in the permafrost, scratching out the lines we never thought you’d cross.

4 - Coming In From the Cold - hopefully in these few songs my penchant for remote vocals as a signifier of winter is clear, and Emma Pollock’s delivery is remote as the music gets increasingly immediate, hitting a mid winter catharsis at the bridge and final chorus where the search for warmth is embraced and then... just held on to as the song resolves without any real close.