1 – Future Is Mine – DJ Cassidy – Featuring Chromeo, this takes the sound of prime disco and tries to copy it, to exhilarating effect, this is like a step backwards into the present, tinny but smooth as well – B+
2 – This Summer – Maroon 5 Vs Alesso – The also ran DJ does a great remix job on a first rate Maroon 5 song, if everybody is gonna put the season in their song titles, let’s make sure the songs are this good – B+
3 – I Want You Back – Jackson 5 – time is a raging monster, it leaves no stone unturned in its complete and total annihilation of you… if you’re lucky. Where are we now, when we were once this? – A+
4 – Stay In My Corner – The Arcs –Â Dan Auerbach’s new song sounds like early Rod Stewart without the vocals, you know the Rod who covered “I’d Rather Go Blind”, without the vocals. Nice guitar solo – B-
5 – Bend – Chet Faker – Soulful – B-
6 – I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know – Donny Hathaway – A soulful, horrifying dirge of desire – A
7 – The Valley – Miguel – A big sex song for me right this minute – A
8 – For Those Of Us ABout To Rock (We Salute You) – Ac/DC – The great AC/DC opener from 1981, Brian sounds like Plant without the attitude  – A-
9 – Come On Siobhan – Titus Andronicus – “In a past-life regression / dream sequence, Our Hero, with his own ancestor for his avatar, tries to persuade his love interest” – Stickles gives solipsism whole new levels of meaning as well as placing nothing in the lyric to suggest an avatar or a dream or a regression. Luckily, the songs remain strong  – B+
10 – Renegades – X Ambassadors – You spend a lot of your life  thinking aout hitting the big time, then a Jeep commercial uses your song, and whomp, you’re an alt rock superstar -C
