A varied collection of tunes to spruce up your Halloween mixtape this year:

Hunting For Witches (Crysta Castles Remix) – Bloc Party

A Weekend In The City (2007)

Tricks ‘N’ Treats – Kid Koala

Scratchhappyland (Unofficial 2000)

The Devil Went Down to Georgia – Charlie Daniels Band

The Devil Went Down to Georgia (1979)

Witchcraft – Frank Sinatra

Witchcraft (1957)

Earth Died Screaming – Tom Waits

Bone Machine (1992)

Vampire – Pink Mountaintops

Outside Love (2009)

Weighty Ghost – Wintersleep

Welcome To The Night Sky (2008)

Psycho Killer (live) – Talking Heads

Talking Heads (1977)

Monster – The Automatic

Not Accepted Anywhere (2007)

Monster Hospital (Mstrkrft Remix) – Metric

Somebody’s Watching Me (After Midnight Bootleg) – Rockwell feat. Michael Jackson

Happy Halloween!!!

Weighty Ghost – Wintersleep

The quintet from Nova Scotia have spent the greater part of this decade honing their sound, and now they are about to take their sound across the Atlantic. Wintersleep is scheduled to be on Zane Lowe’s show on the BBC next week, on Wednesday May 13th!

I’ve only just recently got into this band, but I really like what they have going on. Their latest and second album, Welcome to the Night Sky, was released in late 2007 in Canada, and then in November of last year in the US. The band’s website describe the album:

Each song in its own way points to the fact that sometimes looking too hard reveals things best left unseen. But still, hope grows beneath these sable clouds and distant stars, and a light that looms beyond them all

A truth that is sadly true, but yet beautiful at the same time.

CORRECTION: Wintersleep were not on Zane Lowe on the 13th. They did meet with Zane Lowe to record a Maida Vale session, which should be played on Zane’s show sometime in the near future.