So it occurs to me, in a caffeined-up, cross legged, bedridden, rainy dayed, chipped nail-polished, infected throated kinda way, that no one I’ve read writing about CocoRosie so far (and that includes me, yes yes) has mentioned the name of Brigitte Fontaine. Perhaps they should. Perhaps it’s good that they don’t.

I’ll return to this theme later, once the connection between my brain and my fingers is slightly smoother (right now it’s snarled and fraying, making little pinprick burns - ouch - and no sense) and I’ve stopped jumping up and down at my rediscovery of Fontaine’s 1972 album, which I haven’t listened to in a while. In the meantime, I made a mixtape for my sister’s birthday. It looked like this.

Pencil Stick - Clogs
Let’s Go Swimming - Arthur Russell
Bells - Electrelane
Here Comes The Sun Again - M. Ward
Linden Ave Stomp - Jack Rose
Airs of the ear - Richard Youngs
Grow Sound Tree - OOIOO
Underwater Wave Game - Pit Er Pat
The Chronicles Of Sarnia - Final Fantasy
Peach, Plum, Pear - Joanna Newsom
For The Trees - Matmos
Sweet William - Alasdair Roberts
Lonely Wine - TK Webb
Old folks at home/Old Man River - Beach Boys
In Case We Die (Parts 1-4) - Architecture In Helsinki
Trouble Will Soon Be Over - Blind Willie Johnson