- “Albatross” from The Besnard Lakes’ new release, The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night. A second great release from a band that I don’t think gets enough coverage here, seemi...
- “On a Good Day” by Joanna Newsom. Haven’t been able to give her new album a good listen yet, but this track is just beautiful....
- “Heaven’s on Fire”. Great pop song by Swedish band The Radio Dept., which I hadn’t heard of until now. (via pitchfork)...
- “Demon Host”, by Timber Timbre. Beautiful, spooky, haunting music. If you like this, you should definitely check out other songs from last year’s album. And a Canadian artist no less...
- “Go On” by Basia Bulat, from her new album Heart of My Own, released just today. I saw her in concert last weekend in Toronto and she (and her bandmates) put in an incredible performance. ...
- Arcade Fire cover David Bowie’s “Five Years”. The song is from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and amazingly enough, you can find covers of all of the...
- “Silvia” by Miike Snow. What’s with Scandinavia and all the great dreamy, airy electro/rock/pop music? The video is eerily fantastic too. (via The Music Ninja)...
- “Nightingale/December Song” by Sunset Rubdown. I knew about frontman Spencer Krug’s main musical act, Wolf Parade, since their big 2005 release Apologies to Queen Mary, but somehow ...
- Young Galaxy’s “Destroyer”. One of the top 10 songs of the year, according to CBC Radio 3’s Grant Lawrence on his year-end podcast, and a great, unfussy rock song (and a duet, ...