Last Call: Final Tracks Week Of October 13th, 2014

me and them neither
me and them neither

1. No Ordinary Love – You + Me  – Sure, P!nk has a good voice but she needs the song to signify and she doesn’t have it here, a terrible piano based ballad slow as molasses and a self defeating love doodle – D+

2. Ricochet – We were Promised Jetpacks – Another slow piano based ballad, apparently you can’t close an album without one – C-

3. Usual Dosage – Unwound – Noisy riff filled tinny instruments  for knocking on eight minutes with the occasional screamed out verse  – B

4. This Side Of Heaven – The Swonn Brothers – Ugh, heartfelt folk song about a four year old with cancer and other everyday tragedies – F

5. No One Is Lost – Stars – mainstream poptronic with a nice line, “put your hands up if you ever feel afraid” – B

6.  Halfway to Memphis – Sammy Hagar – Accordion based folk track – C+

7. Let Go – Sallie Ford -electronic pop song – B

8. Call To Arms – Priory – Synth pop anthem – B

9. Let’s Go  ‘Round Again – The Primitives – Pleasant chorale roundelay – B+

10. Lullaby – OK Go – Sleepy time – C+

11. Imaa Imaa – Nico + Vinz – Not unpleasant faux African pop – B

12. Can’t Be Without My Baby – Moniquea – Gorgeous disco track – B+

13 Stolen Dance – Milky Chance – Indie pop with a nice little lick and castanets – B-

14. House Of gasoline – Melvins – metal-y riffs soaring through the air, where they land no one knows but the change in tempo suggests they need a breather – C+

15. Go To Hell – Meiko – Some smart chorus “you say that I will die and go to hell because you know me so well” – A-

16. Assembly Line – Mary Lambert – Modern soul yuckiness – C-

17. This Is Heaven To Me – Madeleine Peyroux – Heaven hell? Hell heaven? end of the album needs answers to big questions – B

18. Boardwalks – Little May – Another lullaby – B

19. I’ll Be OK – Kindness – – Bass lick with a quiet samba, great sax solo – B-

20. Stay The Night – Kele – Great beat – B

21. You Don’t really Know Me – Jessie J – Acoustic change of pace – B

22. Come Back – Jennifer Knapp – Ho hum bye bye heartbreaker – C+

23. Your Design – Grace Mitchell – Sixteen year old wunderkind draws the curtain – B-

24. September Fields – Krazey Fords – Ah yes, the old hidden track … great voice – B-

25. Hang – Foxygen – fro the kill me now files – C-

26. Every Night – Florida Georgia Line – Oh dear, party all the time – C-

27. Angel Of death – Exodus – A cover to take us home – C+

28. You’re Gone – Elliphant – Another nice one from her excellent EP – B+

29. The Afterlife – Electric Six – rock plodder – C

30. Leave The City – Devon Allman – Another bore off a boring album – C+

31. Side Effects – The Bots – why wont these guys do what I want them to? – C+

32. Surrender – Angaleena Presley – Nice love soaked ending – B+

33. Maps For The Getaway – Andrew McMahon In  The wilderness – A pretty ending to a fair albu – B

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