Marcel Winatschek

Five Songs Before the Lawyers Come Back

Muxtape has been in some kind of legal purgatory for weeks—the RIAA made their feelings known, the site went dark, the future is unclear. The weekly mix continues regardless.

This week: The Ting Tings, loud and immediate in a way that makes me feel embarrassed about how much I like it; Bloc Party doing what Bloc Party does; Pop Levi, glam-rock for the overthinking set. And at the end, a ballad by Yoko Kanno and Ilaria Graziano that I keep putting into these mixes because I want someone to hear it cold and sit there quietly for a minute afterward. That’s the whole point of making a mix. That last track.