Welcome to a new feature here at Wake the Deaf. We have long been making mixtapes, but have found that the loose themes of seasons/covers songs are not fruitful enough to post regularly. Variations on a Theme will be a monthly post where we make a list of songs that fit a specific topic. We hope to get creative with the themes, so expect a wide range of weird and wonderful subjects explored through songs.
The second, and most important part of this feature is reader participation. We want to hear the songs that we have missed or forgotten, so yell at us on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr, send us an email, write us a letter! We’ll share the suggestions, and if we get enough we might even make a Readers Mix to go along with our own.
After a short break our themed mix series ‘Variations on a Theme’ is back. Daylight Saving Time is a collection of songs based around the themes of spring – longer days, new beginnings, more light and life.
Tracklisting:
1. Sun, Arise! (An Invocation, An Introduction) – Phosphorescent
2. Bloom – RHODES
3. Sunporch – Walls
4. Sprouts – Esmerine
5. Rainy Summer – H. Hawkline
6. Summertime Clothes – Animal Collective
7. Here Comes the Sun – Nina Simone
8. The Bloom – Houses
9. All Flowers – Trouble Books
10. Black Flowers – Yo La Tengo
11. Sunshine on My Back – The National
12. Spring – Bill Callahan
13. Springworlds – Inventions
14. Bombay – El Guincho
15. Second Summer – YACHT
16. Sun – Caribou
17. See Birds (Sun) – Balam Acab
18. When Water Comes to Life – Cloud Cult
19. Air – Waxahatchee
20. Slow White Beams of Light – Trace Mountains
21. To See More Light – Colin Stetson