Winter Sun

1. Fruit Bats - Rainbow Sign
2. Mercury Rev - Endlessly
3. The Twin Atlas - Sleep In late, Laugh All Night
4. Bert Jansch - Come Sing Me A Happy Song
5. The Shins - New Slang
6. The Kingsbury Manx - New Old Friend Blues
7. Sigur Ros - Staralfur
8. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
9. Animal Collective - Bluish
10. Sufjan Stevens - Romulus
11. Atlas Sound - Walkabout
12. Broadcast - The Book Lovers
13. School Of Seven Bells - I L U
14. Pinback - Loro
15. Mazzy Star - Halah
16. Richard Hawley - Baby, You're My Light
17. Micah P Hinson - Yard Of Blonde Girls
18. The Junipers - Gordie Can't Swim
19. Tim Hardin - Reason To Believe
20. Nick Drake - Northern Sky
21. Cat Stevens - The Wind
22. Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Mysteries

December. The time of year when I like to send out a mix CD to some of my closest friends. In recent years I've sent out Christmas mixes (last year's being the first I have posted on-line).

This year, I decided to opt for a mix with a wintery feel. I also wanted to blow people's socks off with a drop dead gorgeous mix. So I set about compiling 'Swoon' which I posted here last week. During the mix making process I realised I was very happy with how it was shaping up. However it was far from perfect. Then I realised for me, the perfect mix would have to take elements from some of my past mixes.

So this, Winter Sun, contains songs and runs from former mixes 'An Autumn Daydream' 'Fly Away' and 'Wintersong' along with the lovely Grizzly Bear track, a favourite from this year 'I L U' and a song that really and sincerely could be my favourite song of all time 'Bluish'.

So is this my definition of the perfect mix? Probably not, but it's as close as I'll ever get I believe.

RS MF