DoCophenhagen turned me on to an amazing artist from Göteborg, Sweden . They (very tersely) write, "I have been listening to this band for hours and hours," and it's easy to see why.

Winter Took His Life is the work of Susanna Brandin, a dreamy and melancholy treat for that rainy Sunday afternoon. Quiet, introspective and emo but, with a total lack of the pretension that usually accompanies those qualities. As I grow older (but not old..) I find I'm often just looking for simplicity. Not simplicity of thought, or composition but, that indefinable X factor which is born of simplicity in arrangement that is so hard to melt down. Winter Took His Life nails that quality for me, It's moody, it's beautiful and above all, it's simple.

If you took away all the production equipment ever used by the Cocteau Twins, and simply left them with an acoustic guitar, an echo-chamber sounding room to record in, a small digital recorder, and all that angst filled tension and release, I imagine what you'd be left with would sound almost precisely like this.