Check it out:

Swedish Christmas Mix W/Songs By Irene, Montt Mardie, Hello Saferide, Parker Lewis, The Knife, El Perro Del Mare, Etc. Etc.

For those of you who don’t need your music filtered through the fresh nordic snow, they also have another set of Christmas tunes up on their other blog: A Songs:Illinois Christmas.

Have you ever had a song pop in your head that you haven’t heard in long time? Today on the drive home “Closer” by The Tiny did just that. I think it was because the weather or the daylight or something was very similar to the last time I listened to the CD on my drive home from work a few months ago. In any case, it’s a band with a unique sound. They’re a trio from Stockholm: a female vocalist with a very distinctive voice, a cellist, and a double bass, with an occassional piano thrown in. Here’s the video for “Closer”, a strange but beautiful song. The rest of the songs on the album, Close Enough, aren’t quite as accessible, so it takes a bit to get used to them.