Two Very Random Music Notes

I've got my hands (or ears, more accurately) on a copy of the new Band of Horses record, Cease to Begin (out October 9, I believe), and it's very, very good.

When I have it on shuffle (which is almost all the time now, having become tired of exercising my will), my iTunes is abnormally attracted to Joe Jackson and Joanna Newsom. I don't even have that much stuff by them. Odd.