“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging.
The Massachusetts-bred indie rock quartet Speedy Ortiz contributed this week’s playlist, a genre-hopping trip that touches on ’90s rap, ’70s outsider folk, and mellow indie, closing with one of the greatest seven minutes of music ever put to tape, Outkast’s spoken-word funk odyssey “Spottieottiedopaliscous.”
Note that Speedy Ortiz selected Jai Paul’s cover of Jennifer Paige’s “Crush,” which appeared on the since scrubbed-from-the-internet leaked Paul “album.” We’ve included the classic “Jasmine” instead.
Major Arcana, Speedy Ortiz’s charming, raggedy debut full length, is available now from Carpark Records.
Sadie Dupuis’s selections:
“I Lost Something in the Hills,” Sibylle Baier, early 1970s
“Come Into,” Enon, 2000
“Never Lonely Alone,” Space Needle, 1997
Matthew Robidoux’s selections:
“Back in the Day,” Ahmad, 1994
“Burpanomics,” Tracy Trance, 2012
“Runes and Men,” Death in June, 1987
Mike Falcone’s selections:
“Eggdog,” Beak>, 2012
“Jasmine,” Jai Paul, 2012
“The Age of Information,” Lil B, 2010
Darl Ferm’s selections:
“Think of Love,” Drive She Said, 1991
“Continental Kush Breakfast,” Smoke DZA, 2010
“Spottieottiedopaliscous,” Outkast, 2009
