Weezer - SZNZ: Winter

Winter almost feels like a reward for sticking out the other SZNZ.

S. Carey - "Fire-scene"

Bon Iver drummer S. Carey put out a gently beautiful solo debut a couple years back called All We Grow, and is now ready to release a follow-up, entitled Range of Light. He had dropped a single from it, "Fire-scene", and now that single has a video. It is more or less a series of images of a frozen, beautiful winter landscape, full of icicles and trees and mountains. A fire is built. Looks toasty. It is all very appropriate, given the soft, pretty nature of the song itself. The refrain of "All I want is honesty" seems fitting for these visuals, because in the end, what is more honest than the harsh gorgeousness of nature.

Range of Light is out April 1 via Jagjaguwar.

Bun/Delofi - Colors Tape/Winter Tape Split

Brooklyn label Dirty Tapes certainly lives up to its name with its latest split release between Japanese electronic music producer Bun (Fumitake Tamura) and Cleveland experimental beatmaker Delofi. The instrumentals across the Colors and Winter tapes are serene, chilled, and are lent an additional avant-garde edge by their being caked in all sorts of sweet analog grime. The tapes can be streamed and ordered (on cassette, naturally) above via Dirty Tapes' bandcamp page. Happy listening!