every little thing is gonna be alright.

For those of you who know (and presumably adore) the music of Ida, your ears could not possibly snuggle up any more to the idea of vocalist Elizabeth Mitchell singing warm children's songs with both folk sensibilities and children themselves. But this isn't a completely new idea. She's been doing this for a while now, and is currently releasing her third collection of simple masterpieces; fourth if you include the children's book and album she completed with college bandmate Lisa Loeb. Mitchell's voice is angelic and sweet and paired with delicate acoustic guitar picking, she sounds like she's singing from a small homey cottage down the river from where the sirens seduced Everett, Pete, and Delmar in O Brother, Where Art Thou?



I'll keep this brief to allot you enough time to actually go to Mitchell's and Daniel Littleton's (Ida) site for their music and literature dedicated to kids. There you can listen to several songs from each of the three albums in the series, You Are My Flower, You Are My Sunshine, and You Are My Little Bird. Simply click on "Flower," "Sunshine," or "Little Bird" at their website.
I'd share a song if I was able to attain one. But, I'll most likely be ordering one or all of these albums in the near future.

Segue: Mitchell's Ida signed to Polyvinyl Records, the largest shareholder of Kevin Barnes' Of Montreal.

Of Montreal has released a track listing for their upcoming Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?, which will be released in January. The simplistic and easily understood song titles are as follows...

01: Suffer for Fashion
02: Sink the Seine
03: Cato as a Pun
04 Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse
05: Gronlandic Edit
06: A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger
07: The Past is a Grotesque Animal
08: Bunny Ain't No Kind of Rider
09: Faberge Falls for Shuggie
10: Labyrinthian Pomp
11: She's a Rejector
12: We Were Born the Mutants Again With Leafling

Now you just have to wait a couple months to hear any of them. Bide your time by ordering their recently released two LP remix album, Satanic Twins, through Polyvinyl. You can also stream the entire album here.