Friday Playlist: A Nice Chilly Day

It's another beautiful chilly day here in DC, and I'd like to say that these songs are all somehow relevant to that. But I ran out of time to make that playlist, so here's some stuff I've been listening to this week.

Enjoy!

1. "Eden Was A Garden" - Roman Candle
   I think emusic recommended these guys to me. Nice alt-country rock from North Carolina. The whole album's pretty decent.
   
   
2. "The Strums" - The Dodos
   I was very excited to hear about a new Dodos album coming out, their last one was fantastic. This one is great, too. This song in particular reminds me of George Harrison. And yes, it's in the same key as track 1 from this playlist. Go figure.
   
   
3. "Senorita" - The Low Anthem
   Another emusic download. This month they gave all their members 50 free downloads, no doubt as an apology for their shitty new pricing models. This is from their album "What The Crow Brings," a very pretty folk/country/roots album.
   
   
4. "Infinity" - The xx
   Allmusic describes this band as an "atmospheric English indie pop quartet." That sounds about right. Their album is pretty quiet, but there's some nice stuff going on if you listen for it (I like the drum machine noises in this song, for example).
   
   
5. "Even Jesus Couldn't Love You" - Lord Cut-Glass
   Another recommendation from my brother. This is a great and weird album of musically upbeat songs with bizarre lyrics. Sample: "your dreams are spent like next month's rent/on cocaine, pills, and [some word I can't make out]." Toss-up between this song and "Big Time Teddy" for favorite song so far.
   
   
6. "Seven" - Fever Ray
   I like The Knife plenty, so it stands to reason I should like this side project, but other than this track, I pretty much hate this album. So there.
   
   
7. "Stealing Time from the Faulty Plan" - Phish
   I didn't go see them on their latest tour, but I heard several shows, and they actually weren't bad. And I firmly believe this is their best studio effort to date. The production is solid, the band sounds focused but relaxed at the same time, and the sound is nice and big. I love the line "got a blank space where my mind should be" on this song - typical Phish, but they still make it work after all these years.
   
   
8. "Om Nashi Me" - Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros
   Believe me, I would love to say that these guys are just over-hyped dirty hippies. But actually, they're really talented and their freak-folk (actually I prefer my brother's term "acid campfire" for this) album "Up From Below" is fantastic. This song is a little weirder than the rest of it, but it also cheers me up every time I listen to it, especially the chanting and horns at the end.
   

That's all for today, folks. What are you listening to? Tell me in the comments.