Feel good hits of the 8th March

1. 'Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow' - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2. 'Dark In My Heart' - Lee Hazlewood
3. 'Winterkill' - Kid Dakota
4. 'Wired' - I Break Horses
5. 'Vessel' - Zola Jesus
6. 'I Know I Fucked Up' - Darren Heyman with Elizabeth Morris
7. 'Getting Bright At Night' - The Icarus Line
8. 'Benediction' - Thurston Moore
9. 'Mistress' - Marissa Nadler
10. 'Winterbirds' - Epic 45

Notes:

1. Just an excuse to link to that video again? Not quite. This - as well as #2, #6 and #10 - featured on winter-themed mixes I've received as part of a shuffleathon-type activity with work colleagues, which thus far I'm loving (and I'm only a couple in). It also featured on my own compilation, together with #3.

4. There I was thinking that Youth Lagoon's The Year Of Hibernation was going to make off with the shoegaze crown for 2011, and along comes Hearts - a really rather gorgeous album.

5. A couple of listens to Stridulum II was enough to convince me to invest in her latest, on which 'Vessel' is the definite stand-out.

7. Don't know what possessed me to dig out Penance Soiree for the first time in a while over the weekend, but I'm glad I did.

8. How could I ever have thought that Thurston Moore + guitar of any kind could possibly = bad?