Best of 2015 and Happy Birthday Bowie

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Ringo Deathstarr - Stare at the Sun (Pure Mood)
Swervedriver - Setting Sun (I Wasn't Born to Lose You)
Beach House - One Thing (Thank Your Lucky Stars)

Low - Gentle (Ones and Sixes)
Tamaryn - I Won't Be Found (Cranekiss)
SPC ECO - Out of My System (Smile EP)
Rachel Grimes - The Herald (The Clearing)

Gunship - The Mountain (Gunship)
Susanne Sundfør - Fade Away (Ten Love Songs)
Doldrums - Video Hostage (The Air Conditioned Nightmare)
John Carpenter - Night (Zola Jesus and Dean Hurley Mix) (Lost Themes)
Lapalux - U Never Know (Lustmore)

David Bowie - Lazarus (Blackstar - 2016)

Bonus Video Time! David Bowie - Blackstar

Losing Today

For Athena.

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Patti Smith - Elegie (Horses - 1975)
New Order - In a Lonely Place (Movement - 1981)
The Smiths - Asleep (The World Won't Listen - 1987)

Guilford - Wolves (Wolves 7" - 2015)
Julianna Barwick - Waving to You (Nepenthe - 2013)
Chelsea Wolfe - Maw (Abyss - 2015)

Dum Dum Girls - Teardrops On My Pillow (Only In Dreams - 2011)
Blonde Redhead - Penny Sparkle (Penny Sparkle - 2010)
Tropic of Cancer - Stop Suffering (Stop Suffering - 2015)

Slowdive - J's Heaven (Pygmalion - 1995)
A Silver Mt. Zion - For Wanda (He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corners of Our Rooms - 2008)

Low - DJ (Ones and Sixes - 2015)

Four O'Clock Sunsets

Sorry nothing's been posted in the last few weeks. I've been pre-empted by games and taken the time to work on homework. That time of year.

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Sea Oleena - To Hold (Shallow - 2014)
Cloakroom - Dream Warden (Lossed Over 7" - 2014)
Overseas - The Sound of Giving Way (Overseas - 2013)
Overseas - Hellp (Overseas - 2013)

Ultimate Painting - Ultimate Painting (Ultimate Painting - 2014)
The Velvet Underground - What Goes On (The Velvet Underground - 1969)
Low - Just Make It Stop (The Invisible Way - 2013)
Dean Wareham - Love Is Not A Roof Against the Rain (Dean Wareham - 2014)

Carla Bozulich - Don't Follow Me (Boy - 2014)
Sun Kil Moon - Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes (Benji - 2014)
Mamiffer - Flower of the Field (Statu Nascendi - 2014)
Grouper - Clearing (Ruins - 2014)

Marianne Faithfull - Late Victorian Holocaust (Give My Love to London - 2014)

Sound of Sunsets

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Dead Can Dance - Children of the Sun (Anastasis - 2012)
Low - Sunflower (Things We Lost in the Fire - 2001)
Codeine - Kitchen (When I See the Sun boxed set - 2012)
Love and Rockets - Waiting for the Flood (Earth - Sun - Moon - 1990)

Morphine - Buena (Cure for Pain - 1993)
David Byrne & St. Vincent - Who (Love this Giant - Out 9/11/12)
Dirty Three - Rain Song (Toward the Low Sun - 2012)
Idaho - Up the Hill (You Were A Dick - 2011)

Lotus Plaza - Eveningness (Spooky Action at A Distance - 2012)
Night Sins - Spectral Bliss (New Grave - 2012)
Trust - Sulk (TRST - 2012)

This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren (Tim Buckley cover) (It'll End in Tears - 1984)
Bauhaus - Severance (Dead Can Dance cover) (Gotham - 1999)

Distances measured in Sky M(y)les

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Milton Mapes - When Your Lonely Heart Breaks (Neil Young cover) (Out on the Weekened - 2006)
Ida - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere (Neil Young cover) (Ten Small Paces - 1997)
Molina and Johnson - What You Reckon, What You Breathe (Molina and Johnson - 2009)
Doug Burr - Whippoorwill (On Promenade - 2007)
Carissa's Wierd - They'll Only Miss You When You Leave (Songs About Leaving - 2002)
Idaho - Flames (You Were A Dick - 2011)

Station Break - Robin Guthrie - Conquering the Romantic (Continental - 2007)

Low - Pissing (The Great Destroyer - 2005)
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - Blanchard (Through the Devil Softly - 2009)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Black (I See A Darkness - 1999)
Barzin - Nobody Told Me (Notes To An Absent Lover - 2009)
Damien Rice - Cheers, Darlin' (O - 2003)
Whiskeytown - Here's the the Rest of the World (Faithless Street - 1998)
Grand Archives - Swan Matches (Grand Archives - 2008)
Outro - Heroin and Your Veins - Romantic Dreams (Dead People's Trails - 2007)

New-ish (2010) Carissa's Wierd track, "Tucson" performed live (and fucking remarkable):

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Lush - Kiss Chase (Split - 1996)
Curve - Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus (Cuckoo - 1993)
SPC ECO - Gone (You Tell Me - 2011)
School of Seven Bells - Love From A Stone (Lafaye Single - 2012)
Austra - The Future (Feel It Break - 2011)
Blonde Redhead - Love or Prison [Kastellet Remix] (Remixes - 2011)
Station Break - Explosions in the Sky - Human Qualities
Widowspeak - Wicked Game [Chris Isaak Cover] (Gun Shy 7" - 2011)
Sharon Van Etten - Save Yourself (Epic - 2010)
Caitlin Rose - For the Rabbits (Own Side - 2011)
Carissa's Wierd - Heather Rhodes (Ugly But Honest - 2000)
Fleet Foxes - Someone You'd Admire (Helplessness Blues - 2011)
Low - Especially Me (C'mon - 2011)
The Magnetic Fields - You Must Be Out of Your Mind (Realism - 2010)
Lotte Kestner - True Faith [New Order cover] (Stolen - 2011)

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 08-10-2011 You're coming back but not to me.

In the two weeks between school finishing and starting again I managed to make a new show! Stream it or download it.


Smog - Stalled on the Tracks
The Velvet Underground - Who Loves the Sun?
Lavender Diamond - You Broke My Heart
Ryan Adams - Why Do They Leave?
Barzin - When It Falls Apart
Red House Painters - Katy Song
The Smiths - I Know It's Over
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
Carissa's Wierd - You Should Be Hated Here
Rivulets - You Sail On
Morphine - I Had A Chance
Low - Closer
Idaho - Waited for You
Will Johnson - Nothin' But Godzilla
Codeine - Pea

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 06-29-2011 New Idaho Tracks

New tracks from Idaho, Low and Zola Jesus. Stream or Download


Mountain Goats - Damn These Vampires
Young Prisms - In Your Room
Eternal Summers - Salty
The Dunes - Going Under
Station Break - Max Richter - In Louisville at 7
Zola Jesus - Vessel
SPC ECO - Forever Now
Sun Glitters - Too Much to Lose
Ida - Turn Me On
Morphine - The Night
Come - Shoot Me First
Station Break - The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - The Nothing Changes
Esben and the Witch - Chorea
Low - Especially Me
Idaho - Someone to Relate To
Idaho - Waited for You

BtWos 06-01-11

Great new material from Sleepingdog, Low, SPC ECO and some older, soft and melancholy tunes. Stream or Download.

I am a winner at posting playlists. Sorry for the near-month delay. Here we are:

Sleepingdog - Untitled Ballad of You and Me
Lightning Dust - Take It Home
Hosannas - Asleep in the Woods
Station Break - Max Richter - The Twins (Prague)
lowercasenoises - Depths
Low - I'm Done
Milton Mapes - Fallen Angel (Neil Young cover)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See A Darkness
Fleet Foxes - Blue Spotted Tail
Robin Pecknold feat. Ed Droste - I'm Losing Myself
Morning Clouds - Wasted Youth Blues
SPC ECO - Feels Like Flying

Bonus Video Time! Great French wall of sound here by the Psychocandies:

The Last Broadcast

The final show. Thanks to everyone who has tuned in over the last two years. Stream or Download

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 03-03-10 Super Slowcore 'Splosion

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Televise - This is Where...
The Radio Dept. - The Worst Taste in Music
Daniel Land and the Modern Painters - Love Lies Bleeding
Halou - Evensong
Station Break - Codeine - W
Codeine - Vacancy
Idaho - Gone
Come - Hurricane
Devics - My Beautiful Sinking Ship
Elbow - The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver
Station Break - Gregor Samsa - We'll Lean That Way Forever
Red House Painters - Summer Dress
Lambchop - We Never Argue
Lisa Germano - Sexy Little Girl Princess
Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham - Moon Shot
Station Break
Morrissey - Life is A Pigsty
The Meeting Places - Freeze Our Stares
Lali Puna - Crawling By Numbers
Luna - Tiger Lily
Radar Bros. - Hearts of Crows
Station Break - Craig Armstrong - After the Storm
School of Seven Bells - Wired for Light
Sonic Youth - Walkin' Blue
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - For the Rest of Your Life
Valleys - Tan Lines
Station Break - Skanfrom - Here She Comes Now (Slowdive cover)
Grand Archives - Sleepdriving
Barzin - Too Long in This Place
Amusement Parks on Fire - At Last the Night

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 07-25-09

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Tones on Tail - Rain
Comsat Angels - Dark Parade
Colourfield - Windmills of Your Mind
Station Break - Trespassers William - Piano Concert
Devics - Heart and Hands
Centro-Matic - All the Lightning Rods
Carissa's Wierd - Die
Black Heart Procession - A Light So Dim
Station Break - Broadcast - Dead the Long Year
Blonde Redhead - The Dress
Zaza - Sooner or Later
Bethany Curve - Ann Illusion
Film School - A Taste of Dust
Codeine - Vacancy
Low & Dirty Three - I Hear... Goodnight
Gregor Samsa - These Points Balance
Break - Max Richter - Organum
Air Formation - For the Hours
Doves - Darker
PJ Harvey - Long Snake Moan
Break - Gregor Samsa - We'll Lean This Way Forever
The Notwist - Hands on Us
Shearwater - The Snow Leopard
Bat For Lashes - I Saw A Light
Trespassers William - To Be the One (Idaho cover)

We've Gone Two Hours!

Well, better late than never, for the 10th anniversary of KISU and the 1st anniversary of Beyond the Wall of Sleep, the show has gone to a two-hour format. I didn't plan anything special; just hacked away at the playlist like I normally would. I hope it doesn't disappoint.
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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction
Vivan Girls - I Believe in Nothing
Crippled Black Phoenix - Really, How'd it Get This Way?
Devics - Forget Tomorrow
Bat For Lashes - Two Planets
Station Break - Codeine - W.
Spacemen 3 - Losing Touch With My Mind
Spiritualized - No God, Only Religion
A Place to Bury Strangers - The Problem (Prids cover)
Portishead - Plastic
Blonde Redhead - Ego Maniac
Station Break - Spindrift - The New West
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Crushed
Crocodiles - Neon Jesus
Furs - Tumbleweeds
Station ID/Top of the Hour - Max Richter - Tokyo Fiddle Song
Dead Meadow - At Her Open Door
My Bloody Valentine - No More Sorry
Idaho - To Be the One
Codeine - Cave In
Carissa's Wierd - Silently Leaving the Room
Station Break - Carissa's Wierd - The Piano Song
Grouper - When We Fall
Miss Moonlight - Back and Forth
Disinterested - Felt Leaves (feat. Anna-Lynne Williams)
Trespassers William - I Could Go Back
Station Break - Trespassers William - Piano Concert
Low - Whitetail
Cowboy Junkies - It Really Doesn't Matter Anyway
Orbit Service - My Only Friend (Magnetic Fields cover)

01-31-09 Slowcore/Post-Rock

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Mogwai - Boring Machines Disturbs Sleep
Idaho - A Sound Awake
The Doves - Down to Sea
Grouper - Traveling Through A Sea
Station Break - Explosions in the Sky - Glittering Blackness
Comsat Angels - At Sea
Talk Talk - After the Flood
Dirty 3 - Ends of the Earth
Low - Over the Ocean
Station Break - Explosions in the Sky - Glittering Blackness
Codeine - Washed Up
Crippled Black Phoenix - I'm Almost Home
Black Heart Procession - Beneath the Ground