This is one of a series of compilations I've been making since 2004 (around the time of my birthday) featuring some of my favorite recent indie music. While my other indie comps focus on a particular sound or feeling, these indie birthday comps are more stylistically diverse, including "indie" pop, electronica, rock, rap, etc. All songs but 2017 (except one from 2016). Cover image is by Lotte Reiniger from the Adventures of Prince Achmed.
This year there is also a second compilation with less pop-oriented sounds, called Magic Circle.
Artists include (in this order): 1. Girl Ray 2. Molly Nilsson 3. Destroyer 4. The Mountain Goats 5. Deem Spencer 6. Juana Molina 7. Thundercat 8. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith 9. Lali Puna 10. Charlotte Gainsbourg 11. Noname 12. Kelly Lee Owens 13. Sufjan Stevens 14. The Magnetic Fields 15. Mount Kimbie (feat. Micachu) 16. Psychic Temple 17. Robyn Hitchcock 18. Kevin Morby 19. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever 20. Eddie the Wheel
