Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Give the gift of despondency
Here are some holiday music giving recommendations in no particular order and suitable commentary:- Art Brut (listen to it before you buy, but once you get past the lead's singing, you'll dig it)
- Arcade Fire Neon Bible (or Funeral if you don't have it we insist that you must have it and they are Canadian!)
- M.I.A.
- OK Go! (You will like these guys)
- Ghostland Observatory (see Art Brut above)
- Holy Fuck (only if you want to pay tribute to the now defunct Karlheinz Stockhausen)
- Hot Chip (if you don't have their work you better!)
- Iron & Wine (for a bit of laid-back American rockiness)
- Matt & Kim (there is no way around their infectious personalities)
- Living Things (if you don't have it)
- Black Keys (if you don't have it and crave some fried chicken)
- Broken Social Scene (more Canadians!)
- Feist (even more Canadian music with a loungey kind of feel)
- LCD Soundsystem (you must have this if you don't already)
- The Streets (see Art Brut and Ghostland Observatory)
- Berlin Final Countdown (for Gob's theme music)
- Built Like Alaska (if you like hippies)
- Battles
- EL-P (hiphop yo yo yo yo you extraordinaire)
- Peter, Bjorn & John (Scandinavian extravaganza!)
- Sufjan Stevens Welcome to the Illinois (You will like this.)
- TV on the Radio (you must get this particularly Return to Cooke Mountain)
- New Pornographers (more Canadians, we know, but you will, you will like this.)
- Queens of the Stone Age Hero of Vulgaris (or anything else!)
- Scissors Sisters (for the hell of it)
- Kinky Reina (Mexican Rockers, who'd uh thunk it!)
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