Willie Isz - In The Red
(from Cocaine Blunts)
Willie imagines a "better place" where money has no value and everything is free. He needs to check his economic theory - we've almost reached the first half of his utopia now and things don't look too rosy - but the combination of his fluid rhymes and the psychedelic backing track are absolutely correct.
Alan Cohen Experience - The Obama Groove
(from Culture Bully)
This is one of the better (read: not horribly unfunny) pro-Obama ditties out there - a slow-fried funk groove with some natty couplets: "He doesn't have a my-way-or-the-highway philosophy. He's not a slave to the free market fundamentalist theology". You try singing it.
Nomen Novum - Strength and Weakness
(from Have You Heard)
This Atlanta duo used to be Mr and Mr(s) AN Other indie band. Their new direction - bottom-heavy synth ballads - does them more justice.
Fever Ray – If I Had A Heart
(from The Walrus)
First solo offering from the Knife's lead singer, Karin Dreijer. It's alluring, in an incidental-music-for-an-80s-cop-movie sort of way. The Fever Ray album should be out early next year. Let's choose to see this is as an intriguing trailer for the main feature.
Beirut - My Night With A Prostitute From Marseille
(from I Guess I'm Floating
A U-turn for Beirut's Zach Condon, who, according to I Guess I'm Floating made an album's worth of this type of Cure-inspired electro before samba-shuffling his way around the Balkans.
