September ’05 Mix

September 28, 2005

1) Three or Four – Twin Cinema – New Pornographers

I love the falsetto, I love the dueling vocals from Neko Case and Kathryn Calder and I love the New Pornography. I hated that they didn’t play this when I saw them!

2) Outdoor Miner – Chairs Missing – Wire

One of the rare instances of Wire making a pretty song, but this song is right pretty.

3) Under The Paving Stones – Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking? – The Like

I think I hear some woodblocks underneath the cymbals, which I am a total sucker for.

4) You Are Full of Shit (Check Out My Sweet Riffs) – Hearts and Unicorns – Giant Drag

Giant Drag has the biggest, dumbest titles, but seriously, check out her sweet riffs.

5) Woman – EP – Wolfmother

Wolfmother sounds like something out of Spinal Tap. I can’t tell if they’re kidding or serious but it’s massively paranoid sabbath rock.

6) Set You Free – Thickfreakness – Black Keys

Patrick Carney’s drumfills on this really make the song, erratic and manic pulses inbetween Dan Auerbach’s stuttering downstrokes. The bitchin’ melody on the pre-chorus is great too.

7) What’s Mine is Yours – The Woods – Sleater-Kinney

There is a wretched, wrong guitar solo in this that only works in a narrative sense, but Carrie Brownstein’s spastic flurries are so expressive that you can feel the confused agony in the screaming notes before Corin Tucker’s throbbing bassline comes in to calm things down and rescue the song.

8) Blanket – Future Perfect – Autolux

This sounds like something off Sonic Youth’s “Dirty” but I can’t place exactly what it is.

9) Monster Hospital – Live It Out – Metric

Metric’s newest record is considerably rougher and straightforwardly political. I’m not the lyrics are strong enough to be quite so blunt with their agenda, but the main hook in this song will stick in your head no matter what.

10) Medicine – Repulsion Box – Sons and Daughters

OK, the best part of the song isn’t the hyperactive Scottish antics, but the part where they spell the song title. M-E-D-I-C-I-N-E ! A cheer that will rock teaching hospitals all across this land, I tell you.

11) Dony – In Space – Big Star