1. Keep It Gay – Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick – Uproariously funny celebration of all things camp and magical and, well, gray about the musical theater… stopped the show when I saw it on Broadway. Of course, so did everything else – B+
2. Remember Me – Diana Ross – All this does is ache ache ache – A+
3. Some Heavy Ocean – Emma Ruth Rundle – I cam imagine this being a drag on stage but on record it is haunting, fragmentary and ghostly – B+
4. Explode – Big Freedia – Release the wiggle – B+
5. Rattled By The Rush – Pavement – Their most moving moment, especially ytoday when the role of father and son may well have switched – A
6. Sometime In The Morning – Mickey Dolenz – His voice is both very very fragile and yet deep – A
7. Teenage Wasteland – Wussy – Not only is it insane to name the song off a title so famously associated to another band, but Wussy is the worst band name, like, ever, and this is a truly lush and gorgeous indie pop song, an instant classic – A
8. The Teeth Behind The Kisses – Ben Forster – Experimental strangeness but not unpretty – B
9. Congratulations – Cliff Richard – A huge hit for Cliff some 20 years into his career – B
10. Illume – Lust For Youth – This ain’t bad indie popper – B
