Artist	Song	Buy
Camera Obscura	Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken
Rilo Kiley	Portions For Foxes
Old 97's	Buick City Complex
The Stationary Set	Brick And Mortar
Walk The Moon	Jenny
R.E.M.	That Someone Is You
They Might Be Giants	Ana Ng
Gold Motel	Safe In L.A.
Dum Dum Girls	Bedroom Eyes
Uh Huh Her	Wait Another Day
Lemuria	Length Away
Rainer Maria	Mystery And Misery
April Smith And The Great Picture Show	Movie Loves A Screen
The Wombats	Kill The Director
Allison Weiss	I'm Ready
OK Go	Needing/Getting
Bella Ruse	Gumption & Guts
Kate Nash	Nicest Thing
M83	Soon, My Friend

Comment:

This was another mix that had been kicking around for over a year just waiting for a few more songs and some artwork. I finally finished it on New Year's Eve evening just in time to start off 2012 with a clean slate.

The art style (and mix name) were copied from the webcomic A Softer World, but the text and the photographs are mine. Like all the best webcomics A Softer World features a bonus alt-text blurb that you can only see by hovering your mouse pointer over the comic. I was having a devil of a time trying to figure out the best way to translate that effect into a non-interactive print medium when I realized the easiest solution was not to translate it at all.

I waffled on whether or not to conclude the mix with Kate Nash's 'Nicest Thing' or if I should add on 'Soon, My Friend' by M83 as a coda. What kind of emotional conclusion did I want: heartbroken resignation or irrational hope? In the end I decided to go with hope.

"I'll be yours, someday..."

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