Here are three songs I'm playing and liking a lot lately:
“Shoulders & Arms” by Tokyo Police Club – TPC aren’t from Tokyo, don’t carry handcuffs and won’t be accepting any membership applications. I was disappointed, too. But songs like “Shoulders & Arms” off the band’s 2006 EP, A Lesson In Crime, are always sure to cheer me up; TPC makes smart, choppy, assault rifle rock music riddled with jagged yelps, jangly guitar and battered high-hat. Clocking in at just a little over two and a half minutes long, the tracks on A Lesson In Crime are the perfect marriage of punk rock sensibility and East Village know-how.
“Radio” by Saves The Day – The boys of STD have been dumped by a ton of girls. “Radio” has Wladimir Klitschko hooks and sounds like it’s been sung entirely though the nose of Chris Conley, but there’s a total guilty pleasure thing going on here. Bouncy, whiny, backed by buzzing guitars, when I listen to STD I’m checking over my shoulder to make sure I’m alone. And I’m loving it.
“Hussel” by M.I.A. Featuring Afrikan Boy – I’ve been listening to enough rap and hip-hop to know that M.I.A. is pretty much the realness. This is less is more, minimalist beat shit flavored with African dance drums, tribal coos and the third world bars of Afrikan Boy, a street-hardened rapper by way of Nigeria. “You think it’s tough now? Come to Africa” Boy admonishes while M.I.A. takes phone calls from her good friend Habeebi and preaches on the West’s obsession with material possessions. Biting, indeed.
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