GOOD AT MUSIC, RUBBISH AT PHOTOSHOP

Roby and I have been discussing our tracks and albums of 2008 for some list-type action next week. We have found the albums list something of a chore (ie not started yet) but spent most of yesterday sending each other links to singles/songs/remixes. Which is a long-winded way of telling you that a) it is all about songs and of course Bits and b) here are two more songs that we're excited about.

We already did Fan Death's Veronica's Veil, but we are going to reiterate that because now they have made a video for it - for $400, according to the press release - and it looks like mini-Almodovar madness.

It has reminded us that we want to put this song on the Best Songs Of 2008 list. (That is a sneak preview for you, readers.)

The other new song warming our bones today is the first single from Fever Ray, what is Karin from the Knife's new band. There is no video for it yet, but you can hear an instrumental version on MySpace. The press release says it sounds like:

...a stirring mantra, a boundless loop, a deep sleep spreading over fields and endless oceans. A dark evocation of hope and a demand for "more, give me more".

Perhaps that dark evocation of hope will strike us once we've had a cup of coffee. It is definitely remarkably brilliant, though.

Look out for our best-of lists, running in five parts, every day next week. We are excited about them because so far they are not a lot like any we have seen elsewhere. And now we shall get to work on thinking about those "long players".