Artist	Song
The Wondermints	So Nice
Mull Historical Society	Watching Xanadu
Sondre Lerche	Wet Ground
The Thrills	Don't Steal Our Sun
The Shins	Girl Inform Me
The High Llamas	The Goat Looks On
The Flaming Lips	Race For The Prize
The Supernaturals	I Don't Think So
The Concretes	Oh No
The Thrills	Big Sur
Sondre Lerche	Counter Spark
R.E.M.	At My Most Beautiful
The High Llamas	Up In The Hills
The Wondermints	Tracey Hides
The Flaming Lips	Do You Realize?
Jackdaw 4	Happy? (Dumka)
Semisonic	She's Got My Number
The Shins	Turning A Square
The Concretes	On The Radio
The Wondermints	Bali

Comment:

I've posted 20 mixes over the years... but it suddenly occurs to me that there isn't a single track on any of them from the last 30 years! So it may come as a surprise to some that I do infact own and listen to a lot of "modern" music! However, it does seem that I favour modern bands with quite a retro flavour and I only realised quite recently how many of my favourite songs from the last 15 years or so share a common theme... a distinct Brian Wilson influence or a general Beach Boys 'vibe'. And so I set about putting this CD together!!! Some of the artists included (such as The Wondermints or The High Llamas) have clearly made a concerted effort to capture that sound (whether in terms of harmonies, arrangements or production) while others are less obvious but still have something that reminds me of The Beach Boys in some way or other! I've never been comfortable putting random songs together on compilations so I'm glad to have found an "excuse" to put so many of my favourite 'recent' tracks on one CD!

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