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Amiina, an instrumental quartet comprised primarily of members you’d recognize as Sigur Rós’ string section, has been hosting a December countdown full of short, pretty tracks here: http://amiina.com/. Many of the songs can also be heard on SoundCloud. We Wish You A Merry Christmas:
Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Dawn McCarthy have teamed up for a couple of Everly Brothers covers, available now in 7″ format from Drag City. You can enjoy their pretty take on the single’s sad namesake, “Christmas Eve Can Kill You,” below.
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This stream comes to us by way of the fantastic UK music blog, The Line of Best Fit. Sleep Party People is a dream-pop (little bit of nightmare-pop?) outfit from Denmark, driven by the song-writing of Brian Batz, the only full-time member of the project. The live ensemble dons bunny heads for press photos and [...]
Sufjan Stevens has been hopping genres since he got his start, but his latest project finds him teaming up with Anticon’s smart, funny slacker-rapper Serengeti and arranger/producer/crooner Son Lux. Stevens and Serengeti have worked together before, on Buck 65′s remix of “You Are the Blood” for the Dark Was the Night benefit compilation a few [...]
The Books, a duo who spent the last decade making remarkably coherent and accessible sound-collage/pop-song hybrids, is calling it quits. I became an instant fan when I caught a live performance a few years back, and what struck me most was the joy they seemed to take in discovery. The Books were archivists, librarians, curators—found-footage [...]