Belated as it may be, our own little addition to the annual year-end mountain of "Best Of" lists will probably be the last you'll have to endure. After spending the better part of our extended holiday weekend listening to featured artists from this past year, it became clear that we would need to limit ourselves in only listing full-length albums. From one of the most influential indie-rock

Squeezed out of our inbox in the last couple of weeks, this two part edition for Nov 09 has some great tunes. The first part is consisted mainly of indie / indiepop / folk stuff, which makes up about 80% of our inbox. This months noteworthy promos include: + Brown Bird's sophomore " The Devil Dancing " on Peapod Records. An indie / folk group "resting wonderfully on a bed of cello, acoustic guitar, banjo and other assorted instruments". Emotional without any sentimentalism. Check out if you like Balmorhea . + [...]
As happens like clockwork once each week, Sunday evening falls directly upon our heads along with the sobering realization of another cubicle-dwelling handful of days existing in the not-so-distant future. In an attempt to fight off thoughts of our circle-o-impending doom, we've taken the time to sort though our email inbox once again and have some beautifully haunting/enchanting female vocals