No bands you’ve never heard of, this time around. Sorry. Also-no new Madonna tracks. Just watch MTV Hits for that. It grinding against JT overload over there.
1. Lily Allen, “I Don’t Know”
Newly single, blonde and frowning upon the cult of celebrity. Lily Allen is all grown up. For 3 minutes and until the next party at least.
listen here via The Spacer
2. Gnarls Barkley, “Run”
I heart New York Magazine’s description of how this came about: Gnarls Barkley release their album for free download, but Danger Mouse (a longtime opponent of copyright infringement) insists that it only be available backward. This seems like a foolproof way to prevent it from leaking to the Internet months ago.
MP3 here via Elpuoc DDO Eht
3. Scarlett Johansson, “I Don’t Want to Grow Up” (Tom Waits cover)
After Zooey Deschanel, the series of non horrifying actress-turned-singer albums continues with Scarlett’s Tom Waits album.
And I even hate Scarlett and her dead fish face so me saying I (even) like this is a bigger compliment than most other things I’d write on here.
MP3 here via Charlie’s
4. Robyn Hitchcock, Nick Lowe, and Elvis Costello, “Mystery Train” (live)
So, as expected, this sucks.
NOT.
(in other news, everyone should really run out and emusic Nick’s “Jesus of cool” album with all the bells, whistles and extras and oddly compelling pop confections.)
MP3 here via Architectural Dance Society
5. Fleet Foxes “White Winter Hymnal”
We’re all drinking the Fleet Foxes kool-aide around here.
WHY EXACTLY IS THIS ALBUM NOT OUT YET?
MP3 here via Stereogum
6. My Brightest Diamond: “Inside a Boy”
In my ideal world Shara Warden and Annie Clark of St.Vincent (actually real-life friends) sit together with Sigur ros and churn out a song that could really only fit inside a dream. This isn’t quite it, but it is pretty close.
MP3 here via YouAin’tNoPicasso
7. Jeppe (Senior from Junior Senior): “Johnny Come Home” (Fine Young Cannibals cover)
This song succeeds because it does not try to reinvent the wheel. It sounds more like a cover made in 1988 than a cover made in 2008 and while you may try to resist, you will probably fail.
Side note: Remember just HOW creepy the lead singer dude from Fine Young Cannibals looked?
Really creepy.
listen here via Pitchfork
