I don't mean this as backhanded praise, but I admired the construction of Peef's playlist more than it actually hit my pleasure center. I'm not sure that IWB's description of this being a recent indie music mix is quite fair in that it actually sounded very diverse to me, with a healthy sampling of pop acts. And regardless, there's a healthy range between stuff like New Pornographers or The National, and Flying Lotus, Phantogram, etc.
Definitely a few artists I had heard of but will now need to explore further, and a couple I wasn't even aware of. Always a plus.
Extra bonus points awarded for including Honeymoon, one of the standout early Phoenix songs. I miss the band that did that one.
Unfortunately, those bonus points are cancelled out by the inclusion of The Troubles. Not because it's not a great song (it is), or because it's U2 (though I always cringe when a U2 fan includes a song on a mix meant for other U2 fans on a U2 forum), but it bugs me when an album's closing track is used as the finale on a mix (I voiced a similar complaint about CIB using album opener Candy Says at the beginning of her playlist). It's borrowing punctuation from another artist, and I'd prefer that people utilize a song in a new way.
Not a dealbreaker, just a pet peeve. Very good work overall.