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Musicians and critics choose their song of 2010
Spoon played this song in Las Vegas at the Matador at 21 Festival, as a tribute to their friend, the late indie rocker Jay Reatard. They covered it a few times already, on the tour for their excellent 2010 album Transference, but it was new to me. I must have heard the original version before on one of the Jay Reatard albums I bought, but I never noticed it, and I forgotten the artist by the time he died last January. But Spoon turn the skeletal guitar ditty into a real rock roll song, with Britt Daniel singing about teen angst ( inside this glass house / Looking out the window for you with adult muscle in his voice.
The way Spoon play it, Time is about a bad mood, a mood that means nothing and will eventually diffuse into some other kind of mood, nothing to get worked up about but it still hurts anyway. Britt Daniel doesn sentimentalize the bleakness of Time, and he doesn condescend to it by pretending he can relate. All he does is rescue a forgotten song and give it a home. His most recent book is
The Hundred in the Hands, "Dressed in Dresden"
One of the records that I really could not stop listening to this year was the Hundred in the Hands self titled album. I first heard about them in 2009 after I met Richard X, who produced part of their album. To be honest it difficult for me to pick out one particular song of theirs, because I really love the whole thing, but in Dresden is definitely one of my favorites. The production is great simple, energetic, and I love Eleanore Everdell vocals. I hope that I get to see them live next year.
Annie is currently at work on a follow up to last year
The National, "Bloodbuzz Ohio"
This year, the one single song I heard that really took me back a step and made me not only consider how I write, but how music is written in general, was a song by the National called Ohio. I spent many nights listening to this song over and over trying to pick apart how what seems to be a simple song has layer upon layer of precisely placed melody and instrumentation. I think this is going to be one of the bands people will look at 20 years from now as defining part of the sound of this generation, and, more so, the feel of this generation. It uncertain clover bracelet fake and shaken in its core. There really isn a more true statement in 2010 than, floors are falling out from everybody I know, I on a Blood Buzz yes, I am. Fallon is the lead singer and guitarist for the Gaslight Anthem. The band third record,
When I first heard this song, I was instantly transported back to my early high school days when I hop the train into Chicago from Indiana and find my Classic fake van cleef bracelet way down to Clark Street. The rebirth of hippie hadn become cool yet and punk was sort of out, a slightly confused time if you were looking to join a club. It was during this time that I would frequent the Metro where I saw My Bloody Valentine, Tones on Tail, Jesus and Mary Chain, This Mortal Coil, and somehow this song fits right in that era.
Chris Funk is the guitarist for the Decemberists. Their sixth record,
Io Echo, "When the Lilies Die"
Io Echo song The Lilies Die blew my mind to bits in 2010. In this beautifully haunting but upbeat Fantasia like sonic universe, Io Echo plays with replica van cleef & arpels bracelet gold with diamonds the tension between wanting, almost clawing to hold onto the nostalgia of yesteryear, while at the same time desperately trying to find optimism in an uncertain future. Sadness and pain are celebrated as a part of what it means to be alive suggesting that maybe if you walk through the pain, you get to a better place, reminding us all to find beauty and happiness where you can, even in scary places.
Tim Nordwind is the bassist for Ok Go, who released their third album,
Train, "Hey, Soul Sister," and Lady Gaga, "Bad Romance"
Starting in the spring and running through the year on the radio, my twin thrills were Lady Gaga Romance and Train Soul Sister. I never got tired of the delirious swirl of the fan singing to the pop star on his screen from the first moment of his song to the last, or the way a woman cool on cool sexual tease suddenly turns desperate and wild in the last minute of hers. I loved the self confidence in the randomness of the words in both soul sister / Ain that Mister Mister on the radio / The way you move ain fair you know puts cut up lyrics to shame, and the final chant of Romance is pop genius if anything is. Despite the boasts, I get the feeling Nicki thinks the whole world is against her. She is constantly on the defense. I guess this comes with every great from pop singers to NFL players the questioning, the constant doubt, the failure forecasts from everyone watching. So kicking the record off with a track like this makes perfect sense. Lyrically, it your typical underdog stuff, but it completely avoids being boring. In fact, it rules. The last 25 seconds are my favorite when she whispers the lyric over the melody. So good. The duo debut album,
There isn much contextual heft to why this would be a 1 song of the year but it certainly the one I listened to most. is an irresistible bit of electro pop sung by a (relatively) unknown teenage fashionista, produced by Bloodshy Avant (the masterminds behind Britney and their own masked project Miike Snow). It a delirious swirl of arpeggiated synths and chopped, repetitious (really repetitious) vocals. On paper, seems like a pretty standard post Robyn piece of robotic synth pop, but since it cuts out all the chaff, it pretty much an immediate, seemingly unending fun spiral. I obsessed.
Alex Naidus plays bass for the . The band second studio album, will be released in March on Slumberland.
Frankie Rose and the Outs, "Little Brown Haired Girls"
I can listen to music when I write. This means that during the final two years of writing my book, I hardly listened to anything at all. Then this summer Stereogum posted Frankie Rose and the Outs playing Brown Haired Girls, and I felt like my brain was a tomb being aired out for the first time in 2,000 years. There nothing extraneous in it simply explodes over and over in fiestas of balls out exuberance, then pulls back so each new verse feels like a revelation. Frankie and Co. nail this incredible dream pop/garage sound, a gauzy shawl of distortion and reverb around a core of driving determination, crowned with a gooey, oozing layer cake of vocals encrusted in spun sugar fuzz. It barreled a path clear through my
head and let the sun shine in. If I had to just pick the song that spoke to me the most personally, it My Time by Kurt Vile and the Violators. The lyrics touch me on a personal level and are very relatable. The bright production is a fresh departure for Kurt and the band; it confident and tasteful in a less is more kind of way; that guitar solo in it is right up my alley, and frankly I surprised that this song didn make a bigger splash. All the same, it was and is my favorite song of 2010.
Christopher Owens is the lead singer and guitarist for Girls. Their EP,
Anika, "Yang Yang" (Yoko Ono cover)
The song that blew my mind in 2010 was Anika cover of Yoko Ono Yang. Picking up the record randomly at Rough Trade, I wasn sure what to expect, but after my first listen to the first track, I was ready to buy. Then as I listened further I fell into the second track (as all records should make you do). Yang is dirty 2010 post punk. It is distortion, reverb, electronic, dub and rhythm that could break down at any minute. Fragile.
Spoon played this song in Las Vegas at the Matador at 21 Festival, as a tribute to their friend, the late indie rocker Jay Reatard. They covered it a few times already, on the tour for their excellent 2010 album Transference, but it was new to me. I must have heard the original version before on one of the Jay Reatard albums I bought, but I never noticed it, and I forgotten the artist by the time he died last January. But Spoon turn the skeletal guitar ditty into a real rock roll song, with Britt Daniel singing about teen angst ( inside this glass house / Looking out the window for you with adult muscle in his voice.
The way Spoon play it, Time is about a bad mood, a mood that means nothing and will eventually diffuse into some other kind of mood, nothing to get worked up about but it still hurts anyway. Britt Daniel doesn sentimentalize the bleakness of Time, and he doesn condescend to it by pretending he can relate. All he does is rescue a forgotten song and give it a home. His most recent book is
The Hundred in the Hands, "Dressed in Dresden"
One of the records that I really could not stop listening to this year was the Hundred in the Hands self titled album. I first heard about them in 2009 after I met Richard X, who produced part of their album. To be honest it difficult for me to pick out one particular song of theirs, because I really love the whole thing, but in Dresden is definitely one of my favorites. The production is great simple, energetic, and I love Eleanore Everdell vocals. I hope that I get to see them live next year.
Annie is currently at work on a follow up to last year
The National, "Bloodbuzz Ohio"
This year, the one single song I heard that really took me back a step and made me not only consider how I write, but how music is written in general, was a song by the National called Ohio. I spent many nights listening to this song over and over trying to pick apart how what seems to be a simple song has layer upon layer of precisely placed melody and instrumentation. I think this is going to be one of the bands people will look at 20 years from now as defining part of the sound of this generation, and, more so, the feel of this generation. It uncertain clover bracelet fake and shaken in its core. There really isn a more true statement in 2010 than, floors are falling out from everybody I know, I on a Blood Buzz yes, I am. Fallon is the lead singer and guitarist for the Gaslight Anthem. The band third record,
When I first heard this song, I was instantly transported back to my early high school days when I hop the train into Chicago from Indiana and find my Classic fake van cleef bracelet way down to Clark Street. The rebirth of hippie hadn become cool yet and punk was sort of out, a slightly confused time if you were looking to join a club. It was during this time that I would frequent the Metro where I saw My Bloody Valentine, Tones on Tail, Jesus and Mary Chain, This Mortal Coil, and somehow this song fits right in that era.
Chris Funk is the guitarist for the Decemberists. Their sixth record,
Io Echo, "When the Lilies Die"
Io Echo song The Lilies Die blew my mind to bits in 2010. In this beautifully haunting but upbeat Fantasia like sonic universe, Io Echo plays with replica van cleef & arpels bracelet gold with diamonds the tension between wanting, almost clawing to hold onto the nostalgia of yesteryear, while at the same time desperately trying to find optimism in an uncertain future. Sadness and pain are celebrated as a part of what it means to be alive suggesting that maybe if you walk through the pain, you get to a better place, reminding us all to find beauty and happiness where you can, even in scary places.
Tim Nordwind is the bassist for Ok Go, who released their third album,
Train, "Hey, Soul Sister," and Lady Gaga, "Bad Romance"
Starting in the spring and running through the year on the radio, my twin thrills were Lady Gaga Romance and Train Soul Sister. I never got tired of the delirious swirl of the fan singing to the pop star on his screen from the first moment of his song to the last, or the way a woman cool on cool sexual tease suddenly turns desperate and wild in the last minute of hers. I loved the self confidence in the randomness of the words in both soul sister / Ain that Mister Mister on the radio / The way you move ain fair you know puts cut up lyrics to shame, and the final chant of Romance is pop genius if anything is. Despite the boasts, I get the feeling Nicki thinks the whole world is against her. She is constantly on the defense. I guess this comes with every great from pop singers to NFL players the questioning, the constant doubt, the failure forecasts from everyone watching. So kicking the record off with a track like this makes perfect sense. Lyrically, it your typical underdog stuff, but it completely avoids being boring. In fact, it rules. The last 25 seconds are my favorite when she whispers the lyric over the melody. So good. The duo debut album,
There isn much contextual heft to why this would be a 1 song of the year but it certainly the one I listened to most. is an irresistible bit of electro pop sung by a (relatively) unknown teenage fashionista, produced by Bloodshy Avant (the masterminds behind Britney and their own masked project Miike Snow). It a delirious swirl of arpeggiated synths and chopped, repetitious (really repetitious) vocals. On paper, seems like a pretty standard post Robyn piece of robotic synth pop, but since it cuts out all the chaff, it pretty much an immediate, seemingly unending fun spiral. I obsessed.
Alex Naidus plays bass for the . The band second studio album, will be released in March on Slumberland.
Frankie Rose and the Outs, "Little Brown Haired Girls"
I can listen to music when I write. This means that during the final two years of writing my book, I hardly listened to anything at all. Then this summer Stereogum posted Frankie Rose and the Outs playing Brown Haired Girls, and I felt like my brain was a tomb being aired out for the first time in 2,000 years. There nothing extraneous in it simply explodes over and over in fiestas of balls out exuberance, then pulls back so each new verse feels like a revelation. Frankie and Co. nail this incredible dream pop/garage sound, a gauzy shawl of distortion and reverb around a core of driving determination, crowned with a gooey, oozing layer cake of vocals encrusted in spun sugar fuzz. It barreled a path clear through my
head and let the sun shine in. If I had to just pick the song that spoke to me the most personally, it My Time by Kurt Vile and the Violators. The lyrics touch me on a personal level and are very relatable. The bright production is a fresh departure for Kurt and the band; it confident and tasteful in a less is more kind of way; that guitar solo in it is right up my alley, and frankly I surprised that this song didn make a bigger splash. All the same, it was and is my favorite song of 2010.
Christopher Owens is the lead singer and guitarist for Girls. Their EP,
Anika, "Yang Yang" (Yoko Ono cover)
The song that blew my mind in 2010 was Anika cover of Yoko Ono Yang. Picking up the record randomly at Rough Trade, I wasn sure what to expect, but after my first listen to the first track, I was ready to buy. Then as I listened further I fell into the second track (as all records should make you do). Yang is dirty 2010 post punk. It is distortion, reverb, electronic, dub and rhythm that could break down at any minute. Fragile.
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