It’s a tradition that started about five years ago – friends compiling mixes of songs from our favorite albums of the year and trading them with each other. It has become so personal, mailing musical interpretations of the last 365 days across the country for others to hear, to give insight as to how life has unfolded. Songs often say what you wish you could, in more perfect ways than any Hallmark card. Welcome to my 2008. I’ve got my eyes set on the new year.

- Lauren Daniels
seattlegraffiti.blogspot.com

laurens-sweet-16-phat-beets-2008.mp3

1. New Country – The Walkmen
2. Give a Little Love – Noah and The Whale
3. Blue and Gold Print – Mates Of State
4. Last Day of Magic – The Kills
5. I’m A Lady – Santogold
6. Lately – The Helio Sequence
7. Hiphopopotamus & Rhymenoceros – Flight of the Conchords
8. Young Sensualists – Throw Me The Statue
9. Kids – MGMT
10. Dance, Dance, Dance – Lykke Li
11. Blue Ridge Mountains – Fleet Foxes
12. Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? – She & Him
13. Inní mér syngur vitleysingur – Sigur Ros
14. Lover’s Day – TV on the Radio
15. Old Old Fashioned – Frightened Rabbit
16. It’s Okay – Land Of Talk