#33 The Only Relative Thing About The Truth Is Our Opinion Of It.

You know, the "new" can be such pain in the ass. I mean the new year has come and gone, as well as the highly anticipated inauguration, and the collective wisdom was that "change" was supposed be in our veins and such. But change is, as they say, god damn hard. For example, its now the end of January, and my one resolution, to start exercising, is pretty much DOA. Part of me thinks that I can't force it, and just have to wait until I truly come to the heartfelt realization that it is my best interest. Part of me knows that's a bunch of bull.

In a way, it's similar to my unending struggle to keep up with the endless stream of new music that keeps finding itself in my digital collective. For the longest time now, I have collected music far faster than I consume it. I valiantly try to keep up and for the most part I could sustain my head above water. Despite it all, there is an embarrassing amount of music that I have collected, or as one might claim "own", that I have never even listened to. How sad.

And it's getting worse lately. More and more my job has become less and less the kind of thing where I can get away with popping on the headphones and remain unbothered for several hours at a time. So now I am positively drowning. Last years "best of" lists were, for the first time in a long while, full of things I had heard about but didn't have the time to listen to. These are thoughts that do not sit well with me.

Anyway, I digress. Part of what has kept me doing these mixes is the fact that it forces me to sit down for several hours and absorb all the music I have recently (and not so recently) accumulated onto my ever shrinking digital storage otherworld. I know it sounds weird that I have to "force" myself to do one of my favorite things, but it's a happy force. A needed self imposed discipline to make time for the important things.

Long story short is that sometimes you have to force yourself to do the things that are the best for you. Isn't that screwed up?

Since a majority of the most recent mixes have focused largely on older music, I am dedicating the first mix of the new year to only the "new" in all its forms. I am not promising you'll only hear things you hadn't before, but these are all things relatively new to me. Regardless they are quickly becoming some of my favorite "new" things.

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The tracklist is as follows: (Follow the links below to ways of supporting the artists)

01 All to Shit, Lightspeed Champion 02 Un Dia, Juana Molina 03 Witch, Maps & Atlases 04 The Vowels, Pt. 2, Why? 05 No One Does It Like You, Department of Eagles 06 Taste, Animal Collective 07 All the Time, Vivian Girls 08 Lantern Lights, Abe Vigoda 09 Lost to the Lonesome, Pela 10 Group Transport Hall, Women 11 Happy As Can Be, Cut Off Your Hands 12 Oh Yeah!, Housse de Racket 13 I Can Tell, White Denim 14 Learn To Learn, The Week That Was 15 The Deathbridge in Lethbridge, The Rural Alberta Advantage 16 Out of Time, The Dutchess and the Duke 17 Dotted Lines, Electric President 18 No One's Better Sake, LIttle Joy 19 Baby, Alexis Taylor 20 Everyone I Know is Listening to Crunk, Lightspeed Champion