Remember the old days - pre iTunes, pre Spotify - if you needed a "mix" you carefully selected 5 albums for the CD changer to match your mood. An obsure selection to match the obvious - rock vs mellow - random but not too random.

Its Saturday night, the house to myself, a bottle of wine open and with the playlist shuffle I am listening to:

Richard Hawley - Trueloves Gutter
Kathleen Edwards - Failer
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
Lifter Pull - Fiestas + Fiascos
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves

and reading the latest January edition of Word Magazine which has just made it to these parts.

So the ultimate 5CD selection is............