1. Thank You For Your Love – Anthony and the Johnsons – As blue eyed balladeering goes, Anthony is a weird, stealth candidate and to be honest I don’t think I gave the first album its due. This song, with its excitable and yet still low key chorus is a perfect oddity.
2. Be My Girl – Smith Westerns – Their big hit is even better live.
3. Mind Drips (Jesse Woods) – Like the wind blowing through the cobwebs of time.
4. 50 Bullets In Queens – Costanza – Does what Springsteen’s “41 Shots” didn’t -it manages to express the fear.
5. Stuck Like Glue – Sugarland – Shame about her voice bc it’s a catchy sonofbitch.
6. Teenage Dream – Katy Perry – Didja know she dated the “Billionaire” bloke? Neither did I.
7.Lolita – Miniature Tigers -these guys are all over the place but everywhere they land is great.
8. Love Like Crazy – Kiera Sheard
9. Month Of May – Arcade Fire
10. Hamilton Road – Ducktails.