The Best of the Rest
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88 Lines about 44 Songs

Part Four

11) Minus the Bear - Lies and Eyes
Like Matt Scheidler, I am a child of the 90's.  That means strong guitars in the alternative style will always work for me.

10) Jack White - Sixteen Saltines
I was a little let down by this Jack White album.  This song, however, is representative of almost everything that Jack White does well.

9) Tanlines - All of Me
I guess this is 80's-ish?  I just think it is crazy danceable.

New Music Roundup 4/24

A highly anticipated (at least by me) debut finally came out this week, as well as some releases by some more established acts.  Oh, and a truly bizarre album that I have no idea if I love or hate.

Electric Guest - Mondo

Finally, it's here.  I had been looking forward to this album for months now, all on the strength of the single "This Head I Hold."  I describe a lot of music here as catchy, but there's catchy, and then there's the I-can-listen-to-this-20-times-in-a-row-on-repeat nature of a song like This Head I Hold.  Couple that with the fact that this album was going to be produced by Danger Mouse, and you have an album that is right in my musical taste wheelhouse.

Having listened to the entire thing, I have to say, it doesn't disappoint.  It may have made questionable career sense to enlist Danger Mouse as the producer of your debut album (if it's good, it's because it's produced by Danger Mouse, and if it's bad, then you're the band so bad even Danger Mouse can't fix), but it was a home run in the music sense: the album is a combination of electro-pop, soul, funk, and R&B with a retro sensibility, but unlike some other throwbacks to the same era, it's never a direct homage (i.e. "Oh, they stole that bass line from a Curtis Mayfield song" or "He's sings like he's Marvin Gaye"), which keeps the music fresh.  I really, really like this album.  Fans of Beck, Gnarls Barkley, or Foster the People probably will, too.

Selections

This Head I Hold

Waves

Electric Guest – Waves

American Daydream