King Creosote - "Lavender Moon". Badger Minor was the first one to share this song. I hate to do repeats, but tonight is a night when this song is needed. A squeezebox gives out low sighs, strange twittering in the rear. All around you, voices - tender, sad, lit by memory. At times, the song fills to something approaching bliss, but then we inhale - "But now you've left and gone." And there's nothing there; shapes in the air, fragments and figments, dream. And the song ends - just. like. that. [buy]

The Arcade Fire - "Accidents". I apologize to Win for pulling this old, worn song from the wardrobe. And I apologize to those of you who are tired of me writing about the Arcade Fire. But I really, really needed this song tonight, and I feel like there are probably others who need it too. It was recorded in the summer of 2000. And while the band's new material is phenomenal, there are a handful of ancient old antique songs that are overwhelming, magnificent, important. "Accidents" is one. "Milk & Honey" is another (and no recordings of it seem to exist). Jordan would cite "In the Attic." Dan would say "Alligator Mine." But - tonight, it's "Accidents" I needed. And here it is.

This is the band stripped to guitar and (later) drums, a lullabye that stumbles into a minor earthquake and then back. Win Butler sings like a man cupping images in his hands. It's the most mundane little apocalypse: movie-theatre swoon; ambulance swerve; chandelier crash. "I wait for the punch-line / but it never comes." People are tumbling to the ground, hearts flying out of their chests - bouncing, bruising, and maybe (we'll hope) still beating. Two people causing "accidents," their love a disaster, dreadful and miraculous and impossible to understand.

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Ecclectric City is a new mp3blog by Suhrid, the fool-prince of Montreal's indie scene. Currently showcasing US Maple, An Albatross, Hair Police, and his former band, Da (late great) Bloody Gashes. He's got photos, lunatic enthusiasm, and a frenetic style that reminds me a bit of john.

As anticipated, Wolf Parade have signed to SubPop.

Have a very merry weekend.