Turboweekend - "Sweet Jezebel" sleeping sickness sleeping pills sleeping beauty . . . More on this song and Turboweekend's Ghost of a Chance LP over here.

Outdoor Miners - "Turn You Into Glue" It's a bit late to be making additions to my list of melancholy summer jams, so this will just have to settle for being a charming and bittersweet pop tune. Here's a couple others: Irma Thomas - "Cry On" Phoenix...

Fever Ray - "Concrete Walls" My favourite thing on the Fever Ray album are the streaks of numbed synthesizer that snake through the above track and fade off into its oppressive blackness. The multi-tracked vocals contain all the tenderness of an...

Fever Ray - "Stranger Than Kindness" (originally by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds) ****

Four Tet - Love Cry This track might lack some of the magic of Four Tet's record with Burial ("Moth" being my current favourite track of 2009) , but it's still bordering perfection. It has the same panoptic vision, ambiguous climax--Is it the sweet...