music for the winter time
 

it just started to snow here.
So what's your favourite music for this very cold time of the year?


I'm listening to Julia Kent right now and it's perfect.

some black heart procession, maybe.

Joy Division
Radiohead's Amnesiac
Trees Outside The Academy (sounds like a winter album to me)

White Christmas - Bing Crosby

Too early for that one

A Thousand Leaves certainly, NYC Ghosts and Flowers too

Vince Guaraldi - Charlie Brown Christmas
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Bardo Pond - Ticket Crystals sticks out
Charalambides - A Vintage Burden
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein i think kinda does
Godspeed You!Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O

Burzum
Sol Invictus - The Blade
La Düsseldorf

Julia Kent is perfect music for any time outside of summer. It's that cello thing, it's a very cosy sound.

Rameses III's more recent stuff (Matanuska / Honey Rose / Night of the Ankou) is good fireside music too.

Also the soundtrack to Requiem For A Dream.

Popol Vuh's "In Den Garten Pharaos", or alternately, "Transilvanian Hunger" by Darkthrone.

mercury revs yerself is steam......


" ooohh, ohhh, ohhh,ohhhh its cold outside................."

Tim Buckley - Dream letter live in London 1968

the jam

I bought that last week, considering it was 6 years ago when i got All is Dream it was about time too.

I had the road to Damascus moment with that album a couple of weeks ago, ive had it for a good 2/3 years but never really liked it but i suddenly felt a need to not be doing anything at all and just lay down with my eyes closed and listened all the way through, and its been massively realigned in my eyes and ears. Hits of Sunshine is bloody amazing.

i've been listening to fursaxa in bed with coffee and toast in the early mornings whilst watching the frost on the grass through the window.
i listened to einsturzende neubauten's perpetuum mobile this evening with feet on the radiator. i'd say the most wintery songs on that record are Dead Friends, Selbstportrait Mit Kater (my favourite song of the moment) and Ein Seltener Vogel.
although i've probably listened to it at least once a week throughout the past year, Keith Fullerton Whitman's Playthroughs is perfect for winter. it's icey but also somehow manages to be warm and mellow

A bit of Death Vessel too. Yep.

1,000 leaves, parts of nyc ghosts & flowers, both telefon tel aviv albums, and anything christmasy... it's my guilty pleasure, i love christmas music. oh, and most blue note label jazz.

Driving while snow is falling listening to Loveless is an amazing experience.

Winter Was Hard by Kronos Quartet
Snowflakes and Sunshine by Ornette Coleman
Hex Enduction Hour by the Fall
Ágætis byrjun and ( ) by Sigur Ros (I know Iceland isn't really all that snowy, especially these days, but the romanticism of the name belies the truth)
This Mortal Coil's first two records
Eno - Shutov Assembly, Music for Films, and No Heavy Pussyfooting (with Fripp)
Porcupine by Echo & the Bunnymen