GRAPHIC BY MIRO DENCK
For our latest edition of Beekeeping, we’re welcoming Harris Shper, leadman of Montreal band How Sad, to share with us his favorites, old and new. We’re all huge fans here and couldn’t be more excited about their debut EP, Indian Summer, which hits shelves tomorrow. Read on to hear what tunes the band picked for this month’s Beekeeping mixtape:
I’ve been escaping to the country as often as I can. It’s August and I start to worry about the last days of summer coming up, the air is a little cooler and suddenly I remember that this doesn’t last forever — the swimming, the BBQs, late nights on the back porch with friends and drinks, watching the sun rise when I mostly shouldn’t be — in fact I remember that the sun doesn’t always stay in the sky past four in the afternoon.
So it’s August, and you try to make the most of it. And it’s easy to do because it’s beautiful. Driving along the dirt roads with the radio blasting and watching the lazy evening slip into green valleys with the cows grazing beside their red barns and stuff just like that. Oh beautiful. Then, I’m back in the city, I’m walking down a deserted street late at night. And it’s good. Because I love this city and I’m listening to music and breathing in the air that’s just a bit more crisp than the day before, and I start to remember when I first arrived in Montreal, years ago, it was August as well, and it was so new and exciting and the music that I heard! Montreal has raised me and made me become whatever it is that I am now, and it wouldn’t be right to make a playlist without including so many wonderful Montreal artists such as the ones scattered throughout this group of songs.
Here’s August in music — it’s up and down, sometimes it’s Bud Light and sometimes it’s Bud, and sometimes it’s not even.
Spotify:
YouTube playlist:
Tracklist:
- “Lalita” – The Love Language
- “President I Am” – Slow Children
- “Fever Dreams” – Nurses
- “Ashes to Ashes” – David Bowie
- “Dracula’s Wedding” – OutKast
- “Water” – Jamaican Queens
- “Green Rain” – Shugo Tokumaru
- “Take Care” – Beach House
- “Winston” – Bound Stems
- “Hey Lover” – Blake Mills
- “Destroyer’s the Temple” – Destroyer
- “I Saw The Light” – Todd Rundgren
- “Anyone Who Had A Heart” – Dionne Warwick
- “Patches” – Clarence Carter
- “Electric Slim & The Factory Hen” – T. Rex
- “Us Ones In Between” – Sunset Rubdown
- “Paris 2004″ – Peter Bjorn And John
- “Glass, Concrete & Stone” – David Byrne
- “New Summer” – Young Galaxy
- “Forget” – Twin Shadow
- “Summer Special” – Land Of Talk
- “Love Can Be So Mean” – Sebastien Grainger
- “Freeze The Saints” – Stephen Malkmus
- “Beijing” – Patrick Watson
- “Strange Mercy” – St. Vincent
- “Bad Girls” – M.I.A.
- “Conditioning” – Cadence Weapon
- “Evergreen” – The Fiery Furnaces
- “Ya Hey” – Vampire Weekend
- “The River of Dreams” – Billy Joel
- “Sleep Of The Just” – Elvis Costello
- “Golden” – The Tontons
- “Sweet Sixteen” – Think About Life
- “Work” – Iggy Azalea
- “Miscalculations” – Miracle Fortress
- “Broken Dreams Club” – Girls
- “No Surprises” – Radiohead
- “Passage” – Exitmusic
- “I Can’t Tell In His Eyes” – Wildbirds & Peacedrums
- “Merry Go ‘Round” – Kacey Musgraves
- “Shivers” – Divine Fits
- “Two” – The Antlers
- “Heavy Metal Drummer” – Wilco