We Plants Are Happy Plants

We Plants Are Happy Plants is Peter Bergmann, a producer from Hungary. He makes big, swirling, epic sounding electronic music. Another blog, WeAreBinary, said it best when describing his song Apollo:

This song is perfect for a night drive when you're alone in your car. Just driving out to meet some friends at a bar...feels like you're on your way to save the world, or maybe to save a beautiful girl.

Apollo - We Plants Are Happy Plants

WPAHP on MySpace

The Rosebuds

The Rosebuds are a husband-wife team from North Carolina who have made a few albums of very solid indie rock. I love the layering of sounds and voices on this track that makes it sound a little like it was recorded in a cave.

Cape Fear - The Rosebuds
from the album Life Like (2008)

Painted Sinatra blue

I love Bon Iver and I like well-executed covers. This is a well-executed Bon Iver cover. Ellie Goulding is a singer from the UK, and her myspace page describes her music as "electro-acoustic." There's no "electro" in this one.

Wolves (Bon Iver cover) - Ellie Goulding

Ellie Goulding on MySpace

Collabo

Sparklehorse is what Mark Linkous calls himself, and I confess that I am almost completely unfamiliar with his music (the one exception being a Pink Floyd cover he did with Thom Yorke). Based on what I've heard recently, I already wish I had listened to him before. This song is from his collaboration album with Danger Mouse (aka Brian Burton), which is a star studded affair. David Lynch (???) even signed on and created a 100-page book of photography to be incuded with a limited edition of the album. Apparently, this project has actually been shelved over some record label bullshit, so the artists have in effect released it to the public free of charge.

This song is a fine sample of their work, featuring Julian Casablancas of The Strokes.

Little Girl - Danger Mouse/Sparklehorse
from the album Dark Night Of The Soul (2009, sorta)

Isn't it bliss? Don't You Approve?

Nobody makes beautiful, sad-bastard music like Mark Kozelek. He outdoes himself here with this cry-yourself-to-sleep cover of Send In The Clowns, from the Stephen Sondheim musical A Little Night Music.

Send In The Clowns - Mark Kozelek
from the album The Finally LP (2008)

I'm moving on. I hope you're coming with me.

Au Revoir Simone: Three girls from Brooklyn whose "band" consists of three keyboards and a drum machine. This is a hypnotic, sugary little electronic song.

Shadows - Au Revoir Simone
from the album Still Night, Still Light (2009)

Ray Charles

Heard this version for the first time on Sunday night. I think it's fantastic.

Ray Charles - A Fool For You (Live At Newport, 1958)