Although this series has been a lot of fun to write as it is, my sincere hope for it is that, after a dozen days of downloads and gimmickly visuals, you’ll have found a handful of tracks (or at least one, damn it) by artists you’d not previously gotten a chance to wade into. I know that was my experience as I listened to various tracks and selected each day’s new song. Today’s track, “xoxmas” by Woodpigeon, is the perfect example of that for me.
Prior to this series, I was blithely unaware of the beautiful and delicate work being done by Calgary-based Mark Andrews and a cohort of friends and artistic colleagues, but after digesting “xoxmas” and some of the other tracks streaming on the band’s myspace page, you better believe that I’ll be in line on January 12th to scoop up his new LP, Die Stadt Muzikanten, which will be released by Boompa that day. Haunting, ethereal, atmospheric – all the usual descriptors that go along with these apply. This is an album I think people are gonna get excited about early next year. Until then, though, we have Andrews’s holiday gift to us to enjoy.
I’m glad to see another Clevelander has discovered Woodpigeon! I adore this band. It’s too bad that they have never had a U.S. tour; I hope that will change next year.