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june 9
Sing-Sing - Feels Like Summer
Today’s track is curated by Shane Richmond / @shanerichmond
It would have been easier to pick ten songs that represent summer than to come up with just one. I tried to resist choosing a song with ‘summer’ or ‘sunshine’ in the title but I just couldn’t do it. All the great songs I could think of that say summer to me are ones where the singer is experiencing summer too. (Moreover, there was always a singer; as I scoured my record collection not one instrumental track set off my internal summer alarm.)
Still, this track isn’t entirely literal. The song, as the title says, feels like summer, specifically it feels like one of those laidback Sixties summers. It’s not about an actual summer though, but the feeling of summer. Singer Lisa O’Neill is dumping you, listener, and the feeling that gives her is the same feeling that she gets from summer. And a good summer, I think she means, rather than the dreary, grey one I’m experiencing now as I write this with - no joke - the heating on.
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december 17
Ruth Minnikin - Angel At The Dawn
Today’s track is curated by Johnny Bennett / @johnnybennett
Ruth Minnikin’s Angel at the Dawn is not a Christmas song, but one that feels as if it should be. Short, beautiful and full of joy, it’s a great reminder of what really matters before indigestion, familial spats and Wii injuries take their toll.

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december 9
Laura Gibson - Hands in Pockets
Today’s track is curated by Juliette LaMontagne / @jlamontagne
This seasonal sweetness comes by way of my blip.fm compatriot, @gonequiet. You can pocket it if you like.
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december 5
Emiliana Torrini - Big Jumps
Today’s track is curated by Amanda Rose, mastermind of Twestival
It is inevitable to think about what the future holds around this time of the year. Many of us return to that familiar place and fall into a slump of regret remembering all of the things we dreamed of doing the year before. This year, make some ‘big jumps’.
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december 3
the priestess and the fool - fairytale of new york
Today’s track is curated by Brian Ibbott, producer of the Coverville podcast
For me, there are two fantastic holiday tunes that are the music equivalent of “It’s A Wonderful Life”. That is to say, if they come up in shuffle any time of year, I’ll still listen all the way through - even if it’s in the heat of summer. Those two songs are “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”, and “Fairytale Of New York”. And not only was I trying to decide between the two songs, I was trying to decide which version to include. While I love the honey-sweet vocals of Zooey Deschanel on her and Leon Redbone’s cover of “Baby…”, I decided to go with a cover of “Fairytale…” that infuses enough of the original with an even more Irish feel, this version by The Priestess and The Fool from their 2008 Holiday EP, Ride On, Santa.