1 – Beautiful – Wussy – Hot off an excellent set at Webster Hall Saturday night, this song is better live but let’s stop beating em up for that and admit it is one of the most original love songs? Self immolations? The Glen Campbell reference just adds to the overwhelming confusion as the drifter becomes a pyromaniac – A
2 – Black Lake – Bjork – If Vulnerica was a vinyl album, this should close out the first side with an ultra beautiful quasi-classical moods and strings and synths (or whatever instruments she has invented today) for ten minutes of haunting sounds. Hear here – A
3 – Untitled (How Does It Feel) – D’Angelo – Seven plus minutes, yep, and every single one of em adds up to the sort of song that can let a man skate for ten years – A+
4 – Break Spinal – wells and Kool a.D. – Young and impactful, has the distracted feel of a young Mellow Hype – B+
5 – Submarine – Bjork – In which she shakes herself out of a deep sleep – B+
6 – Nobody Move – Poor Righteous Teachers – D.A. of Shinobi Ninja told me this is where he got the “nobody move, nobody get hurt” line, on “Stop” -the track itself is excellent old school – B+
7 – No Waves – Fidlar – Acoustic guitars strum through to the instrumental bridge on this pop punk band – B+
8 – Like I can – Sam Smith – About as lively as the crooner gets on his smash album – A
9- Bang – Bonde de Rolo feat Das Racist – I missed it in 2012 but in 2014 I am wondering why it didn’t hit big – A-
10 – The History Of Wrong Guys – Annaleigh Ashford – should make her the Kristin Chenoweth of the 21st century – A+
