Goose Hut - "Check It Out". On New Year's Eve, we'll all try too hard; or most of us will, the ones who go out; and we'll slosh gins into our bellies, grinning; and we'll gawp at acquaintances across the room; and the floor will get splashed in wet and sparkle. The DJ won't play any of the songs we like and we'll all be wearing winter boots and we'll wonder who the fuck cares about new year's anyway, and we'll go home alone. // Or maybe we won't. [Goose Hut are on Bandcamp]

Plants and Animals - "Lightshow". If they send up gunpowder like Christmas lights, it'll fire up the whole forest. Water-planes will skirt the flames like water-bugs, smoke will lift like an incantation. We'll have ruined everything, just ruined it. We'll have turned sycamore to soot and ash to ash. We'll have learned our lesson, you hope, in the consequences of thrill. [The End of That is due Feb 28 on Secret City]

(Image above is 'The Tragic Life of a Hero', by Mike Mitchell)