Lyrical:
Air – Surfin on a Rocket (Good stuff. Made The Virgin Suicides sing)
Andrew Bird – A Nervous Tic Motion to the Left (Like Beruit’s long lost.)
Beruit – The Flying Club Cup ( Something I like to listen to while knocking down a tall one at the local pub.)

Lyric-less:
Ratatat – Loup Pipes (Listen to this before being a ninja.)
The Octopus Project – I Saw the Bright Shinies (Atx shoutout)
The Gotan Project – La Vigu?ela (accordian, classical guitar, beautiful singer, djs. You can’t go wrong)
Tchaikovsky-Borodin – Sleeping Beauty: Andante (Almost died to this song once. Seemed appropriate.)

Obviously you’re going to want to seeq these artists to fully experience their awesomeness.