Fiery Furnaces - Evergreen
Not to be overly didactic, but if you have never heard this song, you are missing out on a profound pleasure. There are times when I think this is the Fiery Furnaces' best song. It is simple, so pretty, and the lyrics fit together so finely ("EP" has some of their best phonetically locked-in lyrics, everything snaps just so). This is a soft sweet mantra: "Needle prick my spruce root/dear little hemlock shoot/make me stay sharp and keen/evergreen." When they were on, they were so on.[BUY EP]