Instant Playlist - September 27 2012
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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