A dark, chilly mix of house, techno, disco, and electronic pop bookended by two cuts of sublimely desolated folk. It’s the year’s bleakest month, might as well savor it. Image (it’s a photo) by Sasha Kurmaz.
1. Kath Bloom & Loren Mazzacane - floating bridge
2. Balam Acab - oh, why
3. Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX - the crutch
4. Little Dragon - nightlight
5. Grimes - genesis
6. Darkside - A2
7. Todd Terje - ragysh (original mix)
8. Floating Points - sais
9. James Blake - love what happened here
10. Harmonizer - landline
11. Protect-U - double rainbow
12. Andy Stott - dark details
13. Trust - bulbform
14. Holy Other - touch
15. Julia Holter - goddess eyes
16. Kath Bloom & Loren Mazzacane - what a joke