Written by: Scott Hanavan and Dave Cantrell
As arctic vortexes drop down over the northern border and daylight diminishes in one’s own vapored breath, as Santa appears a few seconds after Halloween and the specter of cabin fever looms like an eternal shadow, it isn’t just the thermostats and space heaters that are pulling extra electricity through the virtual walls of the Stereo Embers office but the music-mad iPads, laptops, turntables and, yes, even CD players that will be as responsible for our soon-to-be-soaring utility bills as much as anything else. Stuck indoors? Turn the stereo on, of course! The noise is fairly constant enough during the temperate months but come late fall/early winter, music isn’t just in the air around here, it is the air. With that in mind, we present you with our November playlist, twenty-one tracks that are currently warming our collective cockles, as it were. Though your authors tried to hold the list’s time span to the last four months, a few of these have been lingering for a while longer than that, as we haven’t yet figured out a way to shake ’em.
DIRT DRESS – “Revelations”
SINGAPORE SLING – “You Drive Me Insane”
ASHLEY REAKS – “Cold Body Pussycat”
THE PROPER ORNAMENTS – “Now I Understand”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTb8zAkdNwo
SHABAZZ PALACES – “Motion Sickness”
CHRISTIAN BLAND & THE REVELATORS – “Brian Wilson”
il sogno del marinaio – “Skinny Cat”
ARRICA ROSE & THE …’S – “Song In Your Head”
RUN THE JEWELS – “Oh My Darling Don’t Cry”
GOAT – “Words”
PETER MATTHEW BAUER – “I Was Born In An Ashram”
ARCTIC FLOWERS – “Magdelena”
CORNERS – “Spaceship”
LA HELL GANG – “Inside My Fall”
FIELD MOUSE – “Everyone But You”
CHROME – “Nephilims (Help Me)”
YOUNG MAGIC – “Holographic”
CHRIS CATALENA & THE NATIVE AMERICANS –
“Plain Paper Plane”
THE REAL KIDS – “Can’t Shake That Girl”
THE PAUL & JOHN – “Everything Comes Together”
BURNT ONES – “New Heroes of Subscription Services”