Because you clearly give two shits about what I’m listening to. I’ll try to make this as pretentious as possible by using similes and relating it to coal mines and whatnot.

Hooray for Earth is really good, because their latest album (True Loves) is like everything I want in half-decent electronic music while at the same time being slightly difference because they use guitars. How neat is that? Also their EP Momo is all kinds of fucking awesome. The lyrics are flaky at best and downright bullshit most of the time, but the music they write is top notch. (Do listen to Last Minute on that album.)

Cœur de Pirate sings in French so I get to act all pretentious when I demand legitimate reasons as to why nobody I know listens to her music. Her last album Blonde makes no sense (because I don’t speak French) and she could be singing about the destruction of Western society and the rise of Sharia law for all I know, but her voice is so melodic and the piano music is rare as solo singer-songwriters go; I’ve noticed everyone just plays the acoustic guitar. Of which there is a lot of on this record.

I’m also really into The New Pornographers again, after briefly ignoring every album they put out except for their last one and their first one, which I feel like a jerk about. Challengers is possibly the most perfect mid-2000s Canadian alternative Vancouver-produced indie rock album ever. And I don’t just hand out praise like that all the time, you know!