1 – Radio Gnome Invisible – Gong – This is not really a song, it is a composition, with its heart in progressive rock with a fractured beat and deft delving quasi psychedelic instrumentation without the sweetener of pop music. It is not ahead of its time, its outside its time – B+
2 – Intrinsic Grey – Evans The Death – “You can’t escape…”. this buncha manic depressives from the UK warn and they are quite right on this loud guitar breakdown beauty of a song – A
3 – Blank Space (Acoustic) – Taylor Swift – The shocker here isn’t Max shouting out “oooh” but how much Taylor had already – A
4 – Blank Space – Taylor Swift – One of her top two songs. I’d put “Love Story” before it, but that’s all – A+
5 – Strange – Laura Marling – Maybe the best song off her new album, maybe it is, love the vocal, though I do think she performed it better at the Beacon. The first half of the song, she sings speaks, but then during the chorus, she reaches up with her falsetto, given her voice it has the shock of desire illuminated – A
6 – Strange (live) – Laura Marling – This is so much better than the recorded, her vocal and playing is better, her voice on the second line of the chorus (“yes I know hoooow…” soars overhead like an eagle. I hope the album isn’t fucked production wise – A+
7 – Lay Me Down (with John Legend) – Sam Smith – Oh, good one. They slowed it down – B
8 – 6pm In New York – Drake – Oh, you gotta love it – A
9 – Say Goodbye – Texas – Everything this band sounds like it was done before and wasn’t done before, it is sublimely similar to some soul song you’ve never heard – A
10 – Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo -Verna Felton – If the live action doesn’t have this? Fuck em, I’m not going – A
