But a super extra fantastic intern slipped me a burned copy of Belle & Sebastian’s new album The Life Pursuit yesterday — it doesn’t come out until February — and I’m regaling the office with it right now. (Our email is down. Again. So we have nothing else to do. Quoth Jennifer Maerz, half an hour ago: “We should make a drinking game where we do a shot every time email does down. We’d be wasted.”)

Anyway, I’m not so sure about this album — it’s very, like, up-tempo Bowie (I don’t know what I’m talking about) — but there is a song on it called “Dress Up in You,” which in 24 hours I’ve already become obsessed with because (a) it has a horn solo (like the best B&S song ever, “Dirty Dream Number Two”); (b) it’s slow; (c) he says the word “style,” which is my favorite word for him to sing (“I always loved you, you always had a lot of style,” is the line, recalling the very end of “The Boy With the Arab Strap,” B&S’s second-best song, where he whispers, “She’s a waitress and she’s got style”); and (d) the opening lines, delivered sweetly, are awesome: “I’m the singer, I’m the singer in the band, you’re the loser, I won’t dismiss you out of hand…”