This is the most contagious tune from BOOTS' debut album Aquaria, mixing spare and muscular beats that are chilling and revealing. It is so, so, so, so great to hear Graham Coxon's guitar again. This opening track to Vulnicura, her open-chested document of a relationship's end, is stunning, thoughtful, bitter and questioning in a way only Björk could achieve. If we're really gonna get any deeper into a '90s/grunge revival, can we have more alt-pop earcandy like this bit of awesomeness by four young women from London? Incredible guitar + organ melancholia that also rocks. The once homeless street busker with an unforgettable voice signs with Universal, wins the Mercury Prize and, on this heart-stopper, asks us to remember life's Golden Rule. Take a surreal funk song, work it, then flip it and reverse it into a kaleidoscope of sound. By its closing notes it has become a survivor's tale stark enough to turn that triumphant intro menacing on a second listen.Ī winsome tone-setter for band that's long since mastered the art of buzzy, sweetly nostalgic dream-pop.Ī career highlight revs the engine on the Baltimore band's dreamy formula, with a perfect Dean Wareham-soundalike guitar solo at the end. In its glorious opening minute, "Leaving The Body" could be a song about anything. His words describes the physical sensation of the impending end of a relationship. His voice is gender-bending, gripping, chilling and classic. The most romantic extended boxing motif you'll ever hear to express commitment during the hard times, from Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach and friends. Just when the weight of Savage's husky voice and breathtaking, perfect insight into low self-esteem threaten to overwhelm it, this song cracks wide open and light floods in.
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