I twittered about it yesterday, but allow me to repeat myself through yet another automatically-distributed form of correspondence: this Animal Keyboard song is great.

Animal Keyboard – Good vs. Bad

More at his Myspace page. Sure, this is far from the first act to use the toy instrument gimmick. But the palette of noises on offer from this particular toy is distinctly more NES-ish than most, which fires up my brain's nostalgia receptors something fierce and generally makes for some of the more pleasant 8-bit music I've heard. It makes me want to run outside and start collecting coins.

Unrelatedly, I'm also currently a little fixated on the song at the end of this Stereogum post.

Frightened Rabbit – The Modern Leper

You might remember me getting excited about this band's Christmas music offerings. Now I'm just excited about them in general (or at least about their upcoming album, from which this song is taken — the stuff I've heard from their last release isn't blowing me away). Scottish accents and melodrama are a winning combination.