I don't want to bum anybody out, but summer's almost over. With an emphasis on almost, meaning anything can still happen (aside from reclaiming that unbridled feeling of summer's start and infinite possibilities; we're definitely in the zone of finitude, with all its attendant reminders of our own corporeal mortality, now)! LIVE IT UP! Really. We are sitting right in the heart of the tail-end of the season, it is incumbent upon you to really live it up. As it happens, many of Stereogum's favorite artists took the month of July to release jams perfectly calibrated to cure this existential dilemma. Or, put briefly: This month, the jams were summery! (As a programming note, we did not have a June Monthly Mix because of its proximity to our annual Cruel Summer, which is a three-hour beast you can still stream infinitely.) A breakdown of this month's harvest:
↧