Song 41: No Age - "Ripped Knees"
It's difficult to talk much about a song like this, because it's such a messy punk-rock song. The focus is definitely not on a central hook. There's a cool power in the guitars, though, and the feedback is unbelievable. Heavy feedback for some a light song. The outro that is 1/3 as long as the song is slightly perplexing.
Song 42: Old 97's - "Blinding Sheets of Rain"
I love how lazy this song feels. It just seems like a quiet day on the ranch. I tend to romanticize any song that I can imagine song in a half empty bar of dudes who are just totally beyond grizzled. Guys that just spend all day on the land. Plus, who doesn't love a little lap steel?
Song 43: Hatchmatik - "Burn it Down (Hatchmatik's burn down the club remix)"
This track comes courtesy of Luke again, who sent it to me as part of some electro comp. The intro makes it a little tough to listen to if you're just sitting at your computer hanging out, but if the rapped verse brings a little more of a straight hip-hop vibe to it. Even still, probably can't play this unless you gotta bunch of club kids around, or you're really, really drunk.
Song 44: The Unicorns - "Tuff Luff"
So much of The Unicorns album sounds like it was made it about 2 minutes, and this is a good example. There's some sort of cheap sounding organ thing, and a bass line, and that's about all that's happening here. The rapping part, "Hey nuclear war & a hotbed of trouble / make with the penance, repent on the double." was always my favorite part.
Song 45: Sondre Lerche - "Track You Down"
What a terrible sad and great song. Lerche's song crafting has gradually improved on each album, but the simplicity in this arrangement go perfectly with the lyrics. "I take it you are afraid afraid / of everything I am and of some things I am not / A fear I share before I go to bed."
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No Age is still a total mystery to me; surprising considering that Nouns is probably my favorite album of the year. The band is just like, "Yeah, Nouns is like Weirdo Rippers, just some songs we did and threw together," but Nouns is such an awesome album-as-album album that it's hard to take the band's casual dismissal at face value.
True about the outro to "Ripped Knees," though. It sounds really really Boards of Canada-y. It's weird they threw it on the end of a rock song, whereas something feedback-ambient like "Keechie" gets its own track. It does, however, segue good into straight-ahead album closer "Brain Burner."
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