Primitive Offerings Official Mixtape #1: Tawny Kitaen

I've been wanting to consistently put together a monthly mixtape for quite a while now, coming at the top of the new month. But I couldn't really come up with a theme to tie it all together. If nothing else, use this as a good jumping off point for Bandcamp Friday this week.

So let's let creatively come with what's in the mix, yeah? Here's what I listened to a lot in April. A number of thoughts:

• There's a fair amount of late 70s/early 80s punk & post-punk present here. That's an expected result, to be fair. Nothing weird about returning to the same things you've listened to since you were 15, although I wish I had heard the Slits, Crime, or the Maids in 1992.
• Related: I really wish the Beeb would revisit the Strange Fruit concept and make all the Peel Sessions recordings available again. It's a damned shame that some of the more obscure tracks aren't available for a generation that wasn't around while John was still broadcasting.
• In terms of new stuff, I really like that new boygenius record. That Top Drawer track reminds me of Blitz in the best possible ways; it has one of the best football-style choruses I've ever heard, the kind that I wake up thinking about.
• The gang at Twilight Zone has been slowly rolling out the colossal Chronological Classics discography over the past few months. It's the source of that Louis Jordan track. If you ever wanted to dive into the early days of jazz, you might want to dig into their daily "...and now for something completely different" posts and start snagging those.
• I'm kind of surprised that I didn't have any reggae in this mix; it's probably what I listen to the most on a hour-to-hour basis during the day. But it could be that all that Trojan and Front Line bleeds together, without a single standout track? Just an endless riddim to which to conduct my little piece of the bureaucracy every day.
• The one thing I did hit on? Cover art. I'm going to start naming these collections after these formative images from adolescence. Up first: the former Mrs. Chuck Finley herself, writhing on a hood. What was David Coverdale to do? 

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