I’m a little late to the party, but the UK quartet known as Plugs have got some fantastic tracks. I was having a particularly good day the other day (A on a Midterm anyone?), and listening to my Creative Zen X-Fi on shuffle and a track came on that matched my mood perfectly, and that song was “Imaginary Friend” off of their Imaginary Friends EP which was released in December of 2008. In an online world where the ultra compressed beats of Justice rule, and the sugary sweet pop of Passion Pit is erupting all around us, Plugs contains a bit of both. I particularly enjoy playing their songs loudly out of my car as I pass a gaggle of drunken folk stumbling back to campus.

That sometimes folky, sometimes dancy upstart known as Emil & Friends from Brawlston Massachusetts is back with a new song on a folkier kick called “The Shrine”. If you’re looking for a laid back song for an early morning or late night of scrambling around to get all those things on your impossibly long list of things to do done “The Shrine” is the perfect chill pill.