This one is several days overdue now, but head over to 4AD and download “Sunlight” from Tune-Yards. This is the second track from her bewildering, heady Bird-Brains, which by March or April we’ll likely all realize was the album of the year in 2009. We just haven’t had enough time to piece through it yet.

That voice. Rich, fragile, textured, huge. As if its owner, Merrill Garbus, could sing you to sleep or sing a building off of its foundation, either one.