Instant Playlist - September 27 2012

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      Lana Del Rey
      Ride (Interscope)
      Lana Del Rey could be summing up her entire career to date when she sings “I’ve been tryin’ too hard,” but this string-seared weeper, produced by Rick Rubin, might win over even her harshest detractors. Or maybe not.

      Nosaj Thing
      Eclipse/Blue (Innovative Leisure)
      This chilled-out beauty would have fit seamlessly into Blonde Redhead’s downtempo-tinged Penny Sparkle LP. Or maybe we just think that because Kazu Makino sings it.

      Seapony
      No One Will (Hardly Art)
      Reverb-drenched guitars, echo-heavy vocals, and a retro-’90s production job that suggests someone smeared Vaseline all over the Pro Tools rig? It’s starting to sound a lot like fall.

      R. Kelly
      Feelin’ Single (RCA)
      Damn, girl, if this silky R&B jam doesn’t make us want to totally pee on you.

      Dum Dum Girls
      Mine Tonight (Sub Pop)
      One day we’re going to totally marry Dee Dee from Dum Dum Girls, and then live in a house where the walls are painted black, candles burn from dusk to dawn, and the Jesus and Mary Chain never leaves the stereo.

      Tift Merritt
      Small Talk Relations (Yep Roc)
      Part supper-club jazz, part 3 a.m. country ballad, this gorgeous number from Tift Merritt makes the idea of small talk sound beautiful. Which, if you’ve ever sat next to a rambling octogenarian on the bus from Hope to Cache Creek, is pretty hilarious.

      Strangled Darlings
      Snake & the Girl (Independent)
      Are you missing at least two front teeth? Do you dress in potato sacks and think the banjo-playing kid from Deliverance is one cool fucking mofo? Well, then, you’re going to love the white-lightning Americana of Strangled Darlings.

      Sera Cahoone
      Rumpshaker (Sub Pop)
      It’s not exactly as advertised, unless your idea of booty-quake music is Neil Young’s Harvest Moon, but Sera Cahoone’s got a way with a harmonica, not to mention a battered, dusty acoustic guitar.

      Chvrches
      The Mother We Share (Independent)
      Scottish act Chvrches imagines what might happen if the likes of Grimes or Purity Ring quit farting around and just wrote a fucking pop song already.

      Tame Impala
      Elephant (Modular)
      The Aussie psych masters get trippy as all fuck with synthesizers over a proto-glam boogie, and the result sounds like that time Syd Barrett reanimated Marc Bolan for a jam in Giorgio Moroder’s studio.

      Ke$ha
      Die Young (RCA)
      You’re going to hate it, but because you’re going to hear it everywhere, this ridiculously anthemic and defiantly dumb dance-floor banger will get stuck in your head. And then you’ll start to like it. It’s okay: we won’t tell.

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