A week ago I was in the airport---well, I was in the airport longer than expected thanks to a three-hour delay in Philly, but I was in the airport nonetheless. Now, I've always liked airports and airplanes---the people you see, the minutia, the details that you have to seek out, the middle-aged golfers who make references to W.C. Fields on the plane. While I was in the airport, I made a playlist of air-travel themed tracks. Here is the truncated version of that playlist in mixtape form, the fifth (and aptly titled) Squid Can mixtape: Airport.
Be sure to "Travel Light" and not pack too much for the trip---then again, the sparse, stripped-down slowcore of The Places should help you with that. And while you can't fly to the moon yet, Julie London's quick-paced take on the classic should put you in the perfect mood for flying. To put you in an ever finer disposition, included is the adorably campy "Airwalker" by young twee-pop maestro Jeremy Jay. Once the plane is "Airborne," take a nap to the slick electro-jazz of Jazz Jazzist. Wake up, though, and listen to some classic collegiate indie courtesy of Neutral Milk Hotel, as well as a jazzy live take of Bjork's "Aeroplane." End your flight with two songs about crashing: Laurie Anderson's "From the Air" and Hot Water Music's "A Flight and a Crash." It's hard to deny a mixtape more amiable than Southwest's honey-roasted peanuts.
The download will be available until mid-April. If you like the songs please purchase the albums they appear on. Album titles appear in the filename.
Download the Mixtape
- Travel Light by The Places
- Fly Me to the Moon by Julie London
- Airwalker by Jeremy Jay
- Airborne by Jaga Jazzist
- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
- Aeroplane (Live) by Bjork
- From the Air by Laurie Anderson
- A Flight and a Crash by Hot Water Music
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