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Happy Halloween! Here’s a 7 song youtube mix to help you “ring in” the holiday! Remember, the call is coming from your house!

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There is a specific sadness that comes from exhausting the catalog of one of your favorites. Having read every novel by Faulkner, where do you turn? He’s since passed, of course, and there will be no more. There is nothing fresh left for you, only the smaller joys to be extracted from re-readings. This is why it’s so pleasurable to have a favorite that is still actively producing art– there’s more yet to even be conceived, much less created.

A favorite that’s as of yet only produced two studio albums has recently announced that a third is coming out in mid-October.

A new Kings of Convenience album. I can think of no better soundtrack to the chilly part of autumn. Here’s a preview of the second track, “Mrs. Cold”: