Okay. It's not actually that cold at the moment. This time last year we were all trampling through nine feet of snow. This year it's just a couple of degrees from shorts and t-shirt weather.

But seeing as it is January, what better time to list some of the best wintery songs in pop? To prove it's not just Christmas songs that are rife with snow and ice, here are ten of our wintery favourites.

Has your favourite song been frozen out? Add your ideas below.

The Avett Brothers - 'January Wedding'

Writing as someone who got married in January, this song is quite appealing. It's a simple love song, rooted in American folk, complete with banjo and everything. Here, the darkness of the season is something to protect one another from, in the warmth and cosiness of each other's company. Which, depending on your point of view, makes this song either utterly romantic or completely sick making. Get it here.

Belle and Sebastian - 'Fox In The Snow'

Our Deputy Editor may have shown his displeasure with this song in our 'Act Naturally' feature, but maybe this B&S song deserves a second chance. It's a song brimming with a sense of restlessness as the characters, a fox, a girl and a boy on a bike wait for winter to and and for something - anything better to happen, whether that be finding something to eat or just having something fun happen once. Get it here.

Bellowhead - 'Cold Blows The Wind'

Most folk music seems to exist in a perpetual 'all in the month of May'. Not so here. Bellowhead employ that GCSE English Literature favourite, pathetic fallacy, to explore the misery of missing a lover through the medium of weather as metaphor. It's all cold winds and rain here, complete with chilly sound effects to boot. Get it here.

Cocteau Twins — Winter Wonderland

Some never forgave the Cocteau Twins for switching from ga-ga to English but this special Christmas EP, which also contains 'Frosty the Snowman' is the perfect way to listen to cheesy traditionals without the guilt. (Mark Nicholls)

The Decemberists – 'January Hymn' (pictured)

The Decemberists released their album The King Is Dead in January of last year, which made this track a particularly timely inclusion.  It's one of the album's finest tracks, full of a wintry tenderness.  Colin Meloy's lyrics about clearing away the snow in order to 'green the ground below' is especially wonderful. Get it here. (Alan Ashton-Smith)

Led Zeppelin - 'Immigrant Song'

'We come from the land of ice and snow'. Kind of had to be included really, didn't it. A throbbing, heavy duty tune about Nordic legend and the midnight sun and hot springs. Spectacular.Get it here. (Stephen Morris)

The Leisure Society - 'The Last Of The Melting Snow'

A folkish mix of the Divine Comedy's orchestration and Belle and Sebastian's sensibilities, The Leisure Society produced this blinder of a song on their debut album, 'The Sleeper'. It's a poignant song about change: things ending and other things beginning. And very, very beautiful to boot. Get it here. (Stephen Morris)

Midlake - 'Winter Dies'

Many of the wintery songs in this list are concerned with a sense of waiting: waiting for something to happen. And so it is here with Midlake's rich, beautiful sprawling song. It's beautifully evocative of cold, winter nights, a hymn to the cycle of nature: 'As the winter dies the earth is brought to life'.And it's all done in a style harking back to moments of American rock at its 70s finest. Absolutely gorgeous. Get it here. (Stephen Morris)

The Mamas and The Papas – 'California Dreamin''

This classic song's rather misleading title betrays the fact that 'California Dreamin'' pines longingly for the state's famed sunny skies and lush vegetation. With the song having aptly come to John Phillips in a dream, there's a clever juxtaposition of the seasons with religion, as Denny Doherty booms, 'Stopped into a church I passed along the way/Well, I got down on my knees and I began to pray.'  Get it here. (Sheila Ring)

Zola Jesus - 'Vessel'

There's something about Zola Jesus's music; it's chillingly eerie with cavernous hollowed out aesthetics. There's a mystique about her work that makes it that little more intriguing and someone who still seems to be rather underrated even after her acclaimed 'Conatus' album was one of the most inventive of 2011. (Ash Miekle)

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