In hindsight, I shuold have continued with Pick Your Poison for the full week this week. Looks like there’s enough music to have sustained an “at least 10 songs per day” rate, but here I am giving it all to you in one fell swoop. Given that there are 50+ mp3s here, highlights are very easy to come by, so let me rattle a bunch off for you. The Asteroid #4, Fergus & Geronimo, Martina Topley-Bird, Maserati, The Mountain Goats, Porcelain Raft, Rachel Goodrich, Solar Temple Suicides, Toro y Moi, Wise Blood, and Yalls all make the cut. That’s just normal music we’re talking about. There’s a bunch of holiday-specific music in this collection as well. Of those songs, I can recommend the ones from Banjo or Freakout, Beach House, Candy Claws, Craig Wedren, I Like Trains, Robbers on High Street, and Tape Deck Mountain. So check all this stuff out, maybe bookmark this page and come back to it when you have the appropriate time to spend looking it over carefully. And depending on how things go next week, I might just have one more edition of Pick Your Poison to deliver before Christmas Eve.
AgesandAges – No Nostalgia
Arbouretum – Destroying to Save
The Asteroid #4 – Wild Opal Eyes
Banjo or Freakout – Frosty the Snowman
Beach House – I Do Not Care for the Winter Sun
Bird Names – It’s Skin
The Brute Chorus – Birdman
Candy Claws – Snow Bridge
Chamberlin – Dust
Colin L. Orchestra – Hold Tite
Craig Wedren – Lollie Holiday
David Lowery – The Palace Guards
Duchess Leo – Bloom
Fergus & Geronimo – Powerful Lovin’
Fukkk Offf – Worldwide (Fukkk Offf Remix)
Geoff Berner – Wealthy Poet
Harlan Pepper – Great Lakes
HolidayHoliday – Hanged
I Like Trains – Last Christmas
In These Woods – Always
In These Woods – Bear
The Invisible Hand – There’s Room In My Will
The Invisible Hand – Coy Trap
Jay Crocker – Super Disease
John LaMonica – A Ghost (Demo)
Keegan Dewitt – Christmas Eve
Kopecky Family Band – Our Remedy (Christmas Song)
Las Resistance – Understanding
Lonnie Walker – Compass Comforts
Lull Water – One More Time
Martina Topley-Bird – Sandpaper Kisses
Maserati – We Got the System to Fight the System
Matthew Carefully – Space Nurses
Midnight Magic – Beam Me Up (Jacques Renault Remix)
The Mountain Goats – Tyler Lambert’s Grave
Mount Mole – Little Eyes
Pallers – Arctic Hymn
Pigbag – Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag
Porcelain Raft – Tip of Your Tongue (Blackbird Blackbird Remix)
Porcelain Raft – Tip of Your Tongue (Keep Shelly in Athens Remix)
Rachel Goodrich – After Hours (Velvet Underground cover)
Religious to Damn – Drifter
Robbers on High Street – The Rocking Disco Santa Claus
Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion – Speed of Light
Savoir Adore – Loveliest Creature
Siriusmo – Mosaik
The Sky Drops – Explain It to Me
Solar Temple Suicides – Close Your Eyes
Southern Shores – Grande Comore
Southern Shores – Mauna Loa
Tape Deck Mountain – Christmas Time Is Here Again
Tape Deck Mountain – Blue Christmas
Toro y Moi – Still Sound
Way Yes – Dreadlock Holiday
We Wre the Willows – A Funeral Dressed As A Birthday
Wise Blood – Loud Mouths
Yalls – Germs