LCD Soundsystem, “All My Friends”
This is my favorite LCD Soundsystem song, by a fair ways, as the melancholy mood and nostalgic lens here is just kind of irresistable. And that piano, this is just such a damn jam. Please enjoy.
Trans Am, “Diabolical Cracker”
Is this, like, a sulferic Wheat Thin? Or just, you know, a cop?
The Streets, “Never Give In”
The Streets should be, maybe even are, the corniest act ever. But they’re saved by a core of sincerity at the heart of things which let them bypass all the corniness. It’s a high-wire act in the extreme, to be sure, and the vast majority of people who tried this sort of thing would sound awful. But he sticks the landing.
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