The Best of the Rest
or
88 Lines about 44 Songs

(In order to go easy on internet browsers, this will be broken into four parts)

Part One

44) Adam Arcuragi - Oh I See
Gospel-infused folk that manages to build to a spiritual crescendo.  Having never heard of the guy before this year, I can't wait to see where he goes from here.

43) Yuna - Someone Out of Town
Brooding and haunting, this is one of my favorite chill songs of the year.  Reminds me of that one Imogen Heap song.

42) Lightships - Sweetness is Her Spark
I was likely to enjoy anything by a former member of Teenage Fanclub.  Airy pretty guitars will get me every time.

New Music Roundup 7/10

Don't call it a comeback (seriously, why would you?  I was only gone two weeks and frankly, I wasn't exactly at the pinnacle before that).

Work necessitated that this would be a short entry, but there are two really good new albums this week worth being on folks' radar.

Twin Shadow - Confess

I wasn't as excited about this album as I should have been because I got this guy mixed up with the mediocre Scottish band Twin Atlantic.  My bad: this is quite the album.  Remember how we were discussing summer albums, and I was attempting to distinguish between summer day albums and summer night albums?  If there was any question about what constitutes a summer night album, just listen to this thing.  Andy Greenwald and Chris Ryan of Grandland's Hollywood Prospectus Podcast called this album John Hughes rock, and I'm really jealous they came up with that before me, because it fits really well.  I will instead call it the midpoint between M83 and Tanlines, which of course is a far more obscure descriptor.  Anyway, this is really worth a listen.  

Selections

5 Seconds

Run My Heart

Be Mine Tonight