My oh my that 4th quarter of 2016 was an odd one…!
I think my favorite songs from those pre- and post-election weeks illustrate the atmosphere pretty well: with anti-Trump songs and “wake-up to reality” lyrics and a healthy dashes of sadness and escapism.

Cover and song list for the fall 2016 mix, featuring a photo I took in St. Vrain State Park (Colorado)

1. Welcome To Your Life / Grouplove   
2. Are We Ready (Wreck) / Two Door Cinema Club  
3. Hold On / Bob Mould                                
4. We The People…. / A Tribe Called Quest               
5. No Heart / 21 Savage & Metro Boomin                              
6. TrumpMakesMeWannaSmokeCrack / Ledinsky           
7. Demagogue / Franz Ferdinand                                       
8. Million Dollar Loan / Death Cab For Cutie          
9. Can’t You Tell / Aimee Mann               
10. The Moon / Band of Horses                                                                   
11. Nostalgic Intellect / Peter Bjorn & John                                            
12. Someone to Lose / Wilco                                                                   
13. Is This What You Wanted [Leonard Cohen cover]                      
14. Your Best American Girl / Mitski                                          
15. Backwards Blues / Adia Victoria                                          
16. Barbary Coast (Later) / Conor Oberst                                
17. Easy Wind / Bill Callahan                                                      
18. Counting Sheep / Conor Oberst                                    

Videos for a lot of the songs can be found in my Google+ Music Collection.

Listen to all of the songs as a playlist on Spotify.

 

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