Jeremy Jay - "Airwalker"

The ease with which this song is produced is completely infectious. If lyrics are this easy, if singing a languid tenor is this easy, if steppity-step drums and whistling organ lines are this easy, then maybe everything is just as easy. Maybe I can snap my fingers in time to the pace of my feet and everything will turn into this gray night cityscape fog. Everything will have the easy grace and breezy moves of an unexpected dancer, a stranger, hiply dressed with a gaunt face, who's suddenly got it goin' on. [Buy]

No Little Kindness - "I'll Try"

No Little Kindness have endeavored to produce a new song every week. Not like "until we have an album's worth" or "for 10 weeks straight" or even "until we're famous", they're just going, no end in sight. And this week's is so far the best. It's taken eight weeks to get here, but it was well worth it. "I'll Try" is a fervent and glowing cloudburst of a song, it's a smooth, blue, revolving, gem. It's, like most NLK songs, a series of thin layers, that first start by getting laid on top of each other, and then end by getting cut through, like chopped in half, to see everything at once, to suddenly see everything at once. And here it's as if this idea suddenly occurs to the singers at the end of song, when they hit "I'll drive in an ocean," (or is it "I'll drive in a notion"?) they almost seem to look at each other, to make sure they're right, that they can destroy everything with guitars and cymbals and that that will sound great. [Previously] [Site]

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Elsewhere: unreleased Sunset Rubdown song in their new Daytrotter Session. "Idiot Heart" is quite nice, but their "tour version" of "Three Colours" is really fantastic.