Spring is here, and with it shiny, happy new music you won’t be able to get out of your head. Until at least next week.
1.Free Blood “Grumpy”
Free Blood is Madeline Davy and John Pugh (formerly of !!!)
And this song is just everything a song should be: fun, funny, playfully hyperliterate and danceable as fuck.
MP3 Here via YouAintNoPicasso
2. Papertiger Sound, “Coast Is Clear”
Curve meets the Cure meets your new favorite song for the day
MP3 Here via Hits in the Car
3. Black Kids, “Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover (Sophie B. Hawkins cover)”
Black Kids can do no wrong. Even when it comes to covering the most obnoxious song of all of 90s. Hopefully, no one makes a video for this that involves someone wearing an adult diaper while trying to be sexy.
MP3 Here via What Dreams are Made Of
4. Fugazi, “Long Division (Emyd’s Disco Edit)”
To quote NY Magazine: If only Ian MacKaye had used a club beat earlier, we could’ve been spared all those lame dance-punk bands. We kid because we love.
MP3 Here via Pinglewood
5. Robyn feat. The Knife, “Who’s That Girl?”
12 YEARS after “Show me love” (Los Campesinos were probably not even born then) Robyn keeps hitting with the hard hits.
Almost 4 minutes of pretty much perfect dance pop.
MP3 Here via Stereogum
6. The National, “Mansion on the Hill” (Bruce Springsteen cover)
While I am not 100% on board with The National (I know, I know) I will say that when they cover stuff (look up their “Pretty in Pink” rendition) they do it almost better than the originals. Which is saying something when the original is form Bruce.
MP3 Here via Fuel Friends
7. No Age “Eraser”
No Age is about to have an album out on Subpop.
This is a song from that album.
It has all the energy and “fuck-you” attitude you’d expect, while somehow maintaining the perfect sunny springtime disposition.
In short: You need it.
MP3 Here via Gorillavs.bear
