The Space In Between – How To Destroy Angels – It starts like somebody knocking on a door to be let it and then the singer drones like a chant or something and it seems like a dance track for paraplegics.
Yeah Ya Know (Takers) – T.I. – I am getting really sick of strings on hip hop songs. Not one or two, the whole fucking lot of them. This is completely generic hip hop circa 2010. So busy it seems to be bangin into itself. The chorus: “And we ride, and we roll”. Still, T.I. has flow to spare on a track that don’t deserve it. MEH
Miss Me (Feat Lil Wayne) – Drake – Finally, Drake comes up with the goods and trounces T.I. twice. And Lil Wayne completely out raps both Drake and T.I. When Lil Waye is on he makes it so simple, like Sabathia last Autumn.
You and Your Heart – Jack Johnson – Know how I said I’m an agnostic. Well, this turnwd me into an aethiest because anywhere that can allow such a dreadful numb strum song to be recorded and released is a world with no second acts.
Invisible Light – Scissor Sisters – A little too dark for disco though the giddyup on the drums is prettyhard and the singer sounds like Neil Tennant.
Lady Daydream – Twin Sisters – Sure I said I loved it … but that was three days ago. It is OK in its own right as a dreamscape wall of sound but it is like eating a meal of all veggies… nothing sticks.
iYiY (feat Flo Rida) – Cody Simpson – If you see Flo Rida’s name you know it’s gonna be catchy. But Australian youtube sensation, obviously ready to cash in on the door Justin Bieber’s opened, rides a Jay-Z pal Shawn Campbell production all the way to the bank. Yeah, while I am not keen on the overall sound, it is completely addictive and you can easily imagine thousands of kids screaming “yi yi yi yi, missing you. By the way, not for nothing but don’t these boy singers look more like chicken (children who are sexually exploited) than normal pop stars? It’s a little creepy…
Bangers, Beans, And Mash – Infant Sorrow – Joke power ballad sung by Russel Brand but the joke is lame (“Won’t you come for my bangers”… har har) and the power is kinda weak.
The Lobster Quadrille – Franz Ferdinand – It’s a QUADRILLE you asses, you are meant to formally dance to it. When I was a kid , I heard this Lewis Carrol poem set to music and it had a weird joyfulness. And a woman sang it for a sort of delicious pleasure and a question mark after “will you” and “won’t you” letting her voice intone up and down. These idiots sing it like english is their second language.
Got Your Back (feat Keri Hilson) – T.I. – Lyric is touch prosaic, but it sounds real good, like Destiny’s Child being invaded by a great rapper. Much better than the first song but.
Call On Me – Andy Bell – You know how Scissor Sisters is like Pet Shop Boys? This guy is Erasure. And it is all good, because I LOVE 80s DISCO.
Sacrifice – Setting Sun – Sorta Elliott Smith without the barbituates and a lot more instrumentation… the violin gets you there in the end.
Cherry Blossoms – Quitzow – I love this, who are these guys?Oh wait, that’s my job… Lessee, the leaders name is Erica Quiztow and this is an electronic pop song with a teens type emphasize on movement. What else, yeah I checked out her taste in music and they sound like Hesta Prynn who is on her list but I love PRYNN . Quitzow are like on the cusp between bright and belittled. If you’re gonna call your song “Cherry Blossom” why sound so anxious, right? Oh wait, she has “Let The Right One In” as one of her fave movies. Have you ever seen it? It is the vampire story about these preteen vampires and it is just fantastic… you have to see it. It came out the same time as the “Twilight” movie and there is no comparison. Which leads me back to Quiztow. It seems to be working on a martial beat and yet self-consciously clanks through it and the chick vocalist seems studiedly fucked with and distanced though the lyric itself is a bit by the numbers. SONG OF THE WEEK