Fall Playlist

October is my favorite month: longer nights that make the shorter, sunny days seem sweeter, even as the sun loses its heat.  A "back to school" feel long after you've stopped going back to anything.  A Presidential election and a World Series that leave us all expectant and stuff.

Take a chilly run outside or sit by the fire with this stuff in your ears and see if this fall harvest helps you find a new attitude.


Divine Fits, Would That Not Be Nice - Remember "supergroups"?  Blind Faith, Band of Gypsies, CSN? Inspired pairings that stretched everyone involved?  Get ready to be stretched by this amalgam of Spoon and Wolf Parade.   A top ten 2012 pick.  (Well, it's the fourth quarter already, c'mon).

Solange, Losing You - Beyonce's baby sister hits it out of the park on a tune that sounds like Madonna back in the day, the day being sometime in 1986.  Got a problem with that? 

Storm Queen, Look Right Through You - Note to self:  Get the New Year's Eve party started with this.  

Lianne Le Havas, Is Your Love Big Enough?  23 year-old Brit serving up a spicy stew of folk and soul that just won her a Mercury Prize nomination.  Move over, Adele.  

Bloc Party, Day Four - New British Invasion.  I surrender. 

Daphni - Ye Ye - An electronic wash that will make you hear the sound of your synapses firing.  Interested?  Read Sasha Jones-Frere on Dan Snaith (a.k.a. Daphni) :

 http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2012/10/08/121008crmu_music_frerejones 

Boo!