At Last, from Plaid’s new album Scintilli. I like it. And doesn’t the video have some kind of Minecraft aesthetic? Is that even a thing?

Musical discovery of the weekend: Merrill Garbus. You can watch and listen some more (excelent) songs at 4AD Sessions, which seems like a promising idea for promoting music.

By the way, did you know the ukelele which Merrill plays in some of the other songs in the session is actually a portuguese instrument called the cavaquinho, brought to Hawaii by 19th century emmigrants?

They quickly degenerated into a garden-variety house music act, but back in 1997 Gus Gus were awesome, part of the Cool Icelandia phenomenon spearheaded by Bj÷··rk. Watching this live performance of Believe in some late night show of the German music channel Viva convinced me to buy their album the very next day.

Hoping some warmer music cures my flu once and for all, and still under the influence of The Wackness: Guru — Feel The Music (from the album Jazzmatazz vol.II). It’s incredible how good hip-hop used to be before the bling era.