1. Day Drinking – Little Big Town – Great terribly bad advice but a swinging little blues rocker counting down to a first rate chorus replete with whistling that actually works – A-
2. Welcome To New York – Taylor Swift – The weakest of the trio leading up to 1989 is still plenty plenty good, an ode to the way in which nyc can become the center of your life – B+
3. Sarcastrophe – Slipknot – Doesn’t live up to its name but that’s the worst you can say – B
4. Think Of England – Bear’s Den – Sweet folk stuff, clever lyric – B-
5. I Forget Where We Were – Ben Howard – Acoustic drama – C
6. Tough Love – Jesse Ware – title track of the new album, electronic soul in a post-Rudimental world – B
7. Buried Alive – Logic – Avant garde rap but a lot better than you might think – B+
8. Bad thing – Kieza, Joey Badass – Not terrible electronic pop plus rap – B-
9. Hard Time – Seinabo Sey – Heavy beats soul blues track – C+
10. Brando – Scott Walker, Sunn o))) – Strange strangled crib death noise plus Walker’s overtly over the wall vocal for eight plus minutes. What’s not to like?
