Exfiltration Radio: All Possibilities

It’s been quite a rollercoaster of a year, for all sorts of reasons, and there were times when it felt like we were hunkering down and waiting for a beating to end. But people are getting vaccinated now and it’s spring, and suddenly it seems reasonable to start hoping once more.

Musically, the period I associate most with “hope,” as opposed to “nihilism” or “despair” or “80s hair,” is the time from the late 1990s through about 2003 or so, which produced some of the loveliest songs of hope and happiness I can remember. Part of it was the rise of indie rock, part probably the sustained recovery of the world economy. Maybe it was just that I got married at the beginning of the period, who knows? For whatever reason, it feels like a good time to dust off some of these tracks and start hoping again.

Do not attempt to adjust your set…

  1. Untitled 4 (“Njósnavélin”)Sigur Rós (( ))
  2. ScratchMorphine (Yes)
  3. The Laws Have ChangedThe New Pornographers (Electric Version)
  4. When You’re FallingAfro Celt Sound System (Volume 3: Further in Time)
  5. The Way That He SingsMy Morning Jacket (At Dawn)
  6. Diamond In Your MindSolomon Burke (Don’t Give Up On Me)
  7. Brief & BoundlessRichard Buckner (Since)
  8. All PossibilitiesBadly Drawn Boy (Have You Fed The Fish?)
  9. Time Travel is LonelyJohn Vanderslice (Time Travel Is Lonely)
  10. ShineMark Eitzel (The Invisible Man)
  11. Why Not SmileR.E.M. (Up)
  12. You Are InvitedThe Dismemberment Plan (Emergency & I)
  13. Where Do I BeginThe Chemical Brothers (Dig Your Own Hole)
  14. I’m Still HereTom Waits (Alice)

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