NATIONALISTIC Celebrate the ancients! Ride the Ferris wheel with Frank Lloyd Wright and Carl Sandburg! Fifty states! Fifty albums! Go!

ENIGMATIC Girls will be boys and boys will be girls; it’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world.

CARTOGRAPHIC Cutting corners, turning tricks.

GEOPOLITICAL Yes, even if we split into two states; no culture, no spies, just 40 million daggers.

TECHNOLOGICAL A close reading of your Palm Pilot reveals that you are your handheld’s favorite human device.

FREAKY Does it bother you that we still make out in my dreams?

MORBID Your death waits like a Bible truth, a swinging door, a patient girl who knows the score.

COMIC Not one, but two villains, using their retro-noir hookah-hop powers to perpetrate dastardly doings.

POSSESSED You’re addicted to karaoke.

ENCODED You can intercept the numbers, but you can’t intercept the kill.

COMMERCIAL None of you stand so tall when seated in your VW Cabrios; dead folk singers wanted.

CINEMATIC To reenact the love scenes from Isabella Rossellini movies, to cry with a cigarette at the window, to live for the clapping, it’s a marriage made in heaven.

THE TRACKLIST
Sufjan Stevens Come On! Feel the Illinoise!
The Raincoats Lola
Ramones 53rd & 3rd
Pavement Two States
Momus Handheld
Lali Puna Together in Electric Dreams
Scott Walker My Death
Madvillain All Caps
Ciccone Youth Addicted to Love
The Conet Project The Swedish Rhapsody
Nick Drake Pink Moon
Tindersticks A Marriage Made in Heaven