Give the gift of despondency

Here are some holiday music giving recommendations in no particular order and suitable commentary:

• Art Brut (listen to it before you buy, but once you get past the lead's singing, you'll dig it)
• Arcade Fire Neon Bible (or Funeral if you don't have it we insist that you must have it and they are Canadian!)
• M.I.A.
• OK Go! (You will like these guys)
• Ghostland Observatory (see Art Brut above)
• Holy Fuck (only if you want to pay tribute to the now defunct Karlheinz Stockhausen)
• Hot Chip (if you don't have their work you better!)
• Iron & Wine (for a bit of laid-back American rockiness)
• Matt & Kim (there is no way around their infectious personalities)
• Living Things (if you don't have it)
• Black Keys (if you don't have it and crave some fried chicken)
• Broken Social Scene (more Canadians!)
• Feist (even more Canadian music with a loungey kind of feel)
• LCD Soundsystem (you must have this if you don't already)
• The Streets (see Art Brut and Ghostland Observatory)
• Berlin Final Countdown (for Gob's theme music)
• Built Like Alaska (if you like hippies)
• Battles
• EL-P (hiphop yo yo yo yo you extraordinaire)
• Peter, Bjorn & John (Scandinavian extravaganza!)
• Sufjan Stevens Welcome to the Illinois (You will like this.)
• TV on the Radio (you must get this particularly Return to Cooke Mountain)
• New Pornographers (more Canadians, we know, but you will, you will like this.)
• Queens of the Stone Age Hero of Vulgaris (or anything else!)
• Scissors Sisters (for the hell of it)
• Kinky Reina (Mexican Rockers, who'd uh thunk it!)

Discover the linked up think over at my lastfm site.