Pluie de janvier

I've been obsessing about some new-ish stuff recently, so I made it into a bloglist with songs in between to make it flow. It starts pretty electronically, with some Black Moth Super Rainbow, into Sleigh Bells into The Knife. Then I took it down to a chill-factor of about 4 (on a scale from 1 to chill) with a song by this very nice band, Pearl And The Beard, followed by a song I found after much searching one day; by Avey Tare And Kría Brekkan (David Portner of Animal Collective, and his wife Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir, who was the tiny voice of múm, one of my absolute favorites).

The Daredevil Christopher Wright is fantastic, and this Daytrotter version of his song is one of the ones that's been on repeat in my cluttered brain. I highly recommend getting both of their Daytrotter sessions, both of which have songs off their debut, and I also recommend getting their debut, In Deference To A Broken Back.

Wildbirds & Peacedrums are the band lucky enough to open for St. Vincent in March when she comes to Seattle. They're pretty sweet, and I insist every one of you 21+ people go see St. Vincent. I am forever bitter that I am not able to go myself.

Alamaailman Vasarat is a crazy avant-garde folk-metal Finnish group, you gotta look up a picture of these guys.

This month's installment is wrapped up by the last four songs. I start with one off the new Magnetic Fields album, which is super glossy and poppy (read: high-quality). It's followed by one of my favorite Langhorne Slim songs.

The final song is by what has taken over my heart since I posted my Top of 2009 list. The XX. Their music blows my mind. It's SO simple, yet unbelievably effective. A time doesn't exist where I would object to listening to it. It's very English, in my humble opinion, and at the same time, very sexy, akin to Feist's Let It Die. I have listened to their stunning self-titled debut most nights as I fall asleep for the past couple weeks. Truly great.

Enjoy this list, I believe Anth will have one out right soon as well. A few of you have left a few posts on our group wall, but I just wanted to say that you're all welcome to tell us what you think. Also, you should point your other music-loving friends in our direction. That is all. Live Free or Die Hard, Friends.