Beirut- "Postcards from Italy" (h/t to Deja Vu for blogging about this band and their debut album "Gulag Orkestar"); very compulsively playable song, laced as it is with Balkan rhythms, this one. Besides, their occasional blog posts, such as this one that mentions Borges and Mandelstam, are weirdly beautiful to read.

"And I will love to see that day That day is mine When she will marry me outside with the willow trees And play the songs we made They made me so And I would love to see that day Her day was mine"