Last Call: Final Tracks Week Of October 6th, 2014

Philip Selway
Philip Selway

1. It’s Not Over – Zola Jesus – Oh yeah, irony, get it? It is over because it’s the last track – C

2. California – Yellowcard – Ah yes, a piano ballad just to lull you bye bye – C

3. First Two days With You – Wild Party – Ho hum ending, goes nowhere slowly – C

4. III Return To Ithaca – Weezer – Pretty little instrumental to take you home – B

5. She Loves Him Still – Stevie Nicks – the coda sucks but the rest is OK, circ the Buckinghm-Nicks album and finally released. The singing is atrocious – B-

6. The Storm (Outro) – Tinashe – All sound and fury – C+

7. Last Half Hour – The Vaselines – I already did the Jesus doesn’t want them for his sunbeam joke –damn – C-

8. Hungry Ghost – Violent Soho – Not very pleasant indie rock – C

9. Before It’s Over – Six Am – Some vaudeville to take you home – B

10. Money – Single Mothers – Nice beat, good singer – B

11. Decemberist – SBTKRT – Blah ending – C

12. Another year – Allo darlin’ – Nice banjo bows you out – B+

13. Turning It Inside Out – Phillip Selway – I planned to write more about this album but every time I tried to I nodded off, still this is a lovely little ender – B+

14. Love Song – Minnie Driver – The old Elton song, another credible cover – B+

15. Life – Macy Gray – ah yes, life. Let’s not shy away from the bigger subjects. Apparently, it’s beautiful – B-

16. Remember (Part 2) – Keyshia Cole – straight drag – C-

17. Here – Jackson Browne – Wow, and here was me thinking he couldn’t slow things down any further. Still, not bad – B

18. Little King – Johnny Marr – Lousy song AGAIN – C+

19. Fun In The Sun – Linus Young – I think people like the name Linus because it reminds em of the Peanuts character – C+

20. Two Night Town – Jason Aldean – Another awful song by Aldean – D+

21. Plowing Into TheField Of Love – Iceage – Pitchfork love it – C+

22. The Protest – Flying Lotus – Well, it does sound like a sendoff – B-

23. Cherry Wine Live – Hozier – Oh, Americana. It’s the voice that threw me off – B

24. Please Let Me Let It Go – The Barr Brothers – Folk sleeper – B-

25. Route 69 (Yeah) – Bass Drum Of Death – Crunch riff – B+

26. California Rain – Betty Who – A farethewell of a last song, sorta slow and… wait, haven’t I wrote those words before? – B

27. Superstar – Broods – Nothing much synth ballad – C

28. Telstar – Bill Frisell – Weird intro but then exactly what you think it is –B

29. Your Love Will Set You Free – Caribou – Bleep bloop pop song – C+

30. Doing It Wrong – Gorgon, Liv – Can’t any way end an album without slowing it to a stop – B

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