You Know What I Mean- Cults
This song is the third most popular song on the new album and was the only real hit that was not pre released. Cults complain about how messed up there minds are and I love listening to lead singer Madeline Follin build up angst until the end when she belts out in vain "You Know What I Mean!"
Calgary- Bon Iver
"Calgary" is the first single off of Bon Iver's upcoming album Bon Iver. Wisconsin's Finest isn't interested in the listener understanding his words as much as feelings his voice and accompanying instruments evoke and does he do that well.
2 Hearts- Digitalism
Digitalism hadn't released anything worthwhile since 2007 and I was beginning worry that this duo was falling off the Earth. Not anymore! 2 Hearts sounds like previous hits Pogo and Idealistic. They mix the Daft Punk dance music with a garage alternative band and make great sounds.
Flicker- Son Lux
Flicker starts out sounding like it just came out of a horror film with the deep organ and keeps on that spooky path with the opera voice in the background. The words though are what give it life, a reason to care. Flicker gives the listener the sense of going to a scary movie with just a song.
Mindkilla- Gang Gang Dance
Gang Gang Dance is one of the weirdest bands I have ever heard, but since when is being weird a bad thing? Mindkilla concentrates that weirdness in its synthesizer and electronic background music. I love how GGD brings back a children's ryme by singing "mama's gonna buy you a diamond ring" in that synthesized voice. The weirdest song I've heard so far, but also one of the best.
California- EMA
Next year I'm going to Claremont in Southern California and I have no idea what to expect. Artists like Best Coast and Wavves give me a feel of California fun in the sun, but EMA sees California in a different light. Erika A. Anderson says, "FUCK CALIFORNIA" as she looks behind the superficiality of California and tells us really how it is. Its a struggle to get bye and it changes people but we can all get through it. And that's the side to California I'm more excited to see.
BTSTU- Jai Paul
O how I like a nice redemption song. "I know i've been gone a long time but I'm back and i want what is mine" Jai Paul says during his story about coming back from sea. I love his beats in the background. The bass goes through a fantastic bridge. I hope he doesn't just become a one hit wonder. And would you have expected the guy in the youtube thumbnail to be the writer of this song? Not me.
Montezuma- Fleet Foxes
"Montezuma" begins Helplessness Blues with a bang. Remembering the old days fondly, Fleet Foxes, prepares the listener to go on an blissfully happy journey throughout the album.
County Line- Cass McCombs
This is the only song I liked on his new album Wit's End. The album was too slow for me, which you can hear in "County Line", but this has more elements. Cass uses his high and low voice in the song to really show care and emotion.
Take Off Your Shirt- Bibio
I love when Bibio sings incredibly fast in the beginning and end of the song. The lofi guitar ads a real rocker feel to the song that makes me want to blast this in the car.
Will Do- TV on the Radio
This song kicks ass. It reminds me of a newer version of their previous hit "DLZ". TOTR knows how to make a song about a failed relationship, that should be depressing, sound classically cool.
Operation- Yuck
Yuck is this years LoFi band of the year. The muffled lyrics and the cool guitar riffs start the song well and then two minutes into the song everything is amplified and the action begins creating the life of the song.
Belong- Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Pains of Being Pure at Heart sings about these two who we assume are lovers, but are both not popular. But who cares. He loves her and embraces how they don't belong. POBPAT makes not being popular cool again.
Need You Now- Cut Copy
Not to ever be mixed up with Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now", this song is the highlight of Cut Copy's new album Zonoscope. All I can say is that the build up for this song is wonderful and then when it finally falls every time I hear this I want to stand up and start dancing.
Lindisfarne I & II- James Blake
James Blakes best combined songs on his album, "Lindisfarne" resembles Bon Iver's Woods. Lindisfarne" always calms my nerves and grounds me. Its such a peaceful song sung beautifully and brings out such emotion without giving the listener much to hear.
All Die Young- Smith Westerns
Smith Westerns tell us to do everything we want when we're young in "All Die Young". They sing about young love and dieing with one's chin up. This song makes me want to go outside and seize the day.
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