Spring Mixtape

The sun’s been showing up again, breaking through the endless gray of winter. Pollen season’s here, allergies kicking in, people stocking up on their chemical defenses. But spring has an appeal even when it’s a mess.

I put together a spring mixtape. Nothing elaborate, just what felt right for right now. Marina & The Diamonds is in there. Blood Red Shoes came back and belong on this. Asobi Seksu, naturally. Some newer stuff I’m still figuring out. And somewhere in the middle is this song that’s actively bad—stupid hook, dumb everything—except the thing won’t leave my head. One of those things that shouldn’t work.

Spring does that though. Half-baked, contradictory, beautiful anyway. Rain one day, heat the next, everything starting over. That’s what this is.