Last year I made a fall-themed playlist “Mauve Malaise” that leaned heavily into heavy, distorted sounds of shoegaze interspersed with droning, trance-like folk, an attempt to balance the sonic cacophony of deeply-processed guitars and sheets of American Primitive guitar playing, along with throwing in some good old fashioned seasonal hibernation instincts.

I hoped to channel a similar vibe here, but make it a bit more lighthearted. The last one was pretty “sheets of dark gray skies and seasonal depression”. This one is too to a certain extent, it’s still very mellow, but with more of an emphasis on acoustic sounds. I think it works out okay. And again, this playlist is sequenced, so I’d prefer if you listened straight through and not shuffled. Thanks!

LISTEN TO OCHRE OVERTURE HERE

1. Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd – “Sea, Swallow Me”
2. Insides – “Yes”
3. Pale Saints – “Kinky Love”
4. Stereolab – “Baby Lulu”
5. Avery Leigh’s Night Palace – “Into The Wake, Mystified”
6. Widowspeak – “Jeannie”
7. Adrianne Lenker – “heavy focus”
8. Scott Walker – “Big Louise”
9. The Velvet Underground – “Candy Says”
10. Yo La Tengo – “Nowhere Near”
11. Jon McKiel – “Management”
12. Faye Webster – “Better Distractions”
13. Marisa Anderson – “In Waves”
14. The Flamingos – “Where Or When”
15. Broadcast – “O How I Miss You”
16. Gunn-Truscinski Duo – “Some Lunar Day”
17. Mary Lattimore – “Chop on the Climbout”
18. Lovesliescrushing – “crushing”
19. Nico – “Ari’s Song”
20. Anna Von Hausswolff – “Outside The Gate (for Bruna)”
21. Lomelda – “Reach”
22. Grouper – “Water People”
23. Beach Fossils – “Sleep Apnea”
24. North Americans – “Furniture In The Valley”
25. Jessica Pratt – “Bushel Hyde”
26. Mojave 3 – “My Life In Art”
27. Gravenhurst – “Tunnels”
28. Tenci – “Joy 2”
29. Gia Margaret – “lakes”
30. Sandro Perri – “Time (You Got Me) – Edit”
31. Beach House – “Holy Dances”
32. Weyes Blood – “Maybe Love”
33. Robbie Basho – “Cathedrals Et Fleur De Lis”
34. Brittany Haas – “Bonaparte’s Retreat/Yell In The Shoats”
35. Karen Dalton – “Same Old Man”
36. Daniel Bachman – “Seven Pines”
37. Mountain Man – “Slow Wake Up Sunday Morning”
38. Sam Amidon – “He’s Taken My Feet”
39. Midwife – “S.W.I.M.”
40. Cinder Well – “The Unconscious Echo”
41. Dirty Three – “Sirena”
42. Varo – “Sovay”
43. Circuit Des Yeux – “In The Late Afternoon”
44. Mount Eerie, Julie Doiron & Fred Squire – “Voice In Headphones”
45. Shabason, Krgovich & Harris – “Friday Afternoon”