A few weeks ago I mentioned mentioned the Lounge Anthology album, and since then I’ve really gotten into The Cinematic Orchestra, a UK based Nu Jazz/Downtempo group of awesome awesomeness. These guys exemplify everything I love about the genre. Unsurprisingly, they’ve shot up on my Last.fm charts; #2 most played in the last 3 months (behind post-rock band Mono) and #11 on my overall.

A good number of their songs can be listened to in full on their last.fm page, but here’s a couple I’m particularly in love with:
On a slightly related note, BreadofWonder just linked me to this really awesome youtube vid of a guy covering the song Clutter via Sax: