Do you ever find yourself putting songs into an on-the-fly playlist just to make your morning commute seem like an exceptionally long tracking shot or a gauzye movie montage? And then you end up listening to those few songs over and over again, walking places, until you running into a friends and both momentarily extract earbuds to stop imposing your soundtrack on the rest of the world for a brief conversations? Yeah, I didn't think so.

Still. It's probably time to get rid of these.

• Phoenix - "Love For Granted" [mp3]
  
• Broken Social Scene - "Lover's Spit" [mp3]
  
• November 16 - "I'd Like To Think" [mp3]

As far as I'm concerned, there's really no comparison between the near-perfect short story November 16 version of that song and the Band of Horses version ("I go to the barn because I like the") that ended up on Funeral Everything All the Time.

The other day, I wrote about a particular album living up to the hype,¹ but maybe I should have written that despite any level of hype that maybe they deserve more.

Yet after I uploaded an mp3 from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah ("The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth" [mp3]) I learned that they already have several tracks from their self released album online at their website, clapyourhandssayyeah.com and that you can stream the whole album at New Scratch Records [#]

So. Download away and then buy the disc and go see them! The song that I put online isn't on their site and it's one my favorites. It's the sort of summer music that breaks up your insides and puts them back together in a happier state of mind where you might just find yourself jumping around in your kitchen while cooking ravioli and asparagus for dinner.

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1. for what it's worth, I read the pitchfork review [#] and agree about the first track. Maybe skipping it the first few times you listen is not a bad idea.