Three Cheers for Duality: A Playlist

Life is never really just black and white, but sometimes your day-to-day feels like it’s spent being buffeted between extremes. Case in point, SXSW this week—an exercise in maximum exhilaration tempered by maximum stress. Which is why the following playlist, in honor of polar opposites, has made for pretty great walking-around-Austin music.

1. “The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton” – The Mountain Goats

2. “The Modern Leper” – Frightened Rabbit

3. “I Would Hurt a Fly” – Built to Spill

4. “Race for the Prize” – The Flaming Lips

5. “My Shadow” – Jay Reatard

6. “333” – Malajube

7. “My Iron Lung” – Radiohead

8. “How a Resurrection Really Feels” – The Hold Steady

9. “Things I Don’t Remember” – Ugly Casanova

10. “Returning to the Fold” – The Thermals