Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Music Corner

Hi everyone! Have we had good breaks from work? Have we looked at 2014 and decided to make resolutions after all? (Hold me to it: I’m going to stop buying cheap shoes and start doing my quarterly taxes.) What have we been listening to while the arctic blast blows in? I think the most interesting song I heard over the holidays was the pan-generic “Lovelink,” from a new band called DESSERT:

I was also into the XX-meets-Tegan-and-Sara-with-saxophone vibes of Vök’s “Before,” via:

And I’ve been liking this lonely, angelic remix of Lorde’s “Ribs”:

Found the last one through Gorilla vs. Bear’s excellent December mix, which also features the only Christmas song I got into this year, which was not actually a Christmas song: CEO’s children’s-choir cover of Kanye West’s “Hold My Liquor.” Oh, and the new Nicki!