1. It Is What It Is – Blood Orange – I saw him perform this on Jimmy Kimmel with Samatha Urbani, his Friend girlfriend, and they kicked it hard but it is a terrific fuzz sound wall of soul – B+
2. In The Corners – Francisco The man – Gorgeous wall of guitars – B+
3. Rocco – Daniel Lanois –This is a nice spooky 90 seconds – B
4. In Nowheres – The Twilight sad – Another lovely luna landscape of sound filled with up holes with guitars and sonic plaster of paris – B+
5. Editing Floor Blues – Yusuf/Cat Stevens – Hey wait a doggone, isn’t he meant to turn the other cheek? No, wait, wrong godhead – B+
6. I Go To Sleep – The Pretenders – How good is this? Ray fell in love with her over it – A
7. Strict Time – Elvis Costello – Bo Diddley inspired lovers ramble, and one of the first songs I ever learnt to play and a joy to sing, try it: “there’s a hand on a wire that leads to my mouth I can hear you knocking but I’m not coming out” – A+
8. Only – Nicki Minaj – Oh yeah, she can rap! – B+
9. Lights On – FKA Twigs – her masterpiece, I’m not remotely sick of it – A
10. All The Cross (Love ran red) – Chris Tomlin – Yuck – C-
