Ingrid Michaelson "Girls and Boys"

Ingrid Michaelsons "Girls and Boys" kind of puts me in a weird place. It is a lovely and brilliant recording. I just hope it can get past its "Greys anatomy and target commercial" box. I honestly did not expect this record to be this good. I absolutely love it. And I am left searching for "Slows the Rain".

Bat for Lashes "Fur and Gold" is a lushly beautiful and quirky recording. I think the best description I have heared so far is dido/joanna newsome/kate bush/bjork had Devendras illegitimate lovechild. Freak folk? no, I think not. Mystical? oh yeah. I love its simple/sparse arrangements. It is rhythmic and seductive filled with handclaps and shakers etc. The British ladies continue to invade (Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen) while managing not to get in each others way stylisticly.