1. Try To Remember – Jerry Orbach – from the longest running off-Broadway musical of all times, The Fantasticks, here is the original from (remember?) 1960, a tender place setter and humoungous hit rhyming from follow some nine time. Interesting idea: the past as a place fitted by imagination. Grade: A
2.Endless Ladder – A sonic tonic of melodic stealthfulness from brooklyn band who seem to be getting better at it – Grade: B+
3. Riot – 2 Chainz – The word is this guy is a real hot rapper. Perhaps, but not here – Grade: C+
4. Come Again, Sweet Love Doth Now Invite – Danielle de Niese – Declaration of desire nearly 400 years old – Grade: A
5. Perfect Vision – Icky Blossoms – You'd think a band with a name as original as Icky Blossoms would have something a little more on their minds than Gth electronica – Grade: B-
6. Super Rich Kids – Frank Ocean – Earl Sweatshirt sounds so disaffected in this song, it is like the perfect teen song for bored fuckheads – Grade: A-
7. Gospel – Wicky Lindows – Multi beats ignores sample for originals. Pretty damn lively for dubstep – Grade: A-
8. Sleeping Ute – Grizzly Bear – This is al beats being not broken, but crashed down upon – Grade: A-
9. Small Town Moon – Regina Spektor – She suffers from nostalgia but not quite and she moves on without leaving – Grade: A
10. Bastard – Tyler The Creator – Ground zero for the rapper and the school psychologist is't getting it – Grade: A