Code Pie - "Operator". Maybe "Operator" is about God, maybe it's about ourselves, maybe it's about a flashing switchboard that controls our days. Whatever it is, the song hoists them on its shoulders, parades them through the neighbourhood, high-fiving & jaywalking & pausing for shots of snowmen, sunrises, poodles. Montreal's Code Pie make a racket with percussion, glockenspiel, synths, horns, but although the instrumentation is familiar, the arrangement is mischievous, fresh; it's determined and shambolic, like someone who is very carefully falling down the stairs and into his next move. [listen on bandcamp / album launch on Sunday]

Olenka and the Autumn Lovers - "Go". A fine song, worthy of country radio and vintage jukebox - but Olenka's not from Nashville, not from 1981: she lives in London, ON and makes indie rock with the Autumn Lovers, certain and smouldering. So set aside the image of a bridle, a kerosene lantern, a hill - imagine instead a beat-up Civic, a cell-phone, a highway. Betrayal persists, heartbreak adapts, loss lives. [buy And Now We Sing]

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Elsewhere:

Honestly, holy shit, what a wonderful, wonderful video for "Bizness", from Tune-Yards' upcoming album.

(image by Tolia Demidov - source)