PAUSE. This Dirty Projectors song sounds a bit... reductive.



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11. Fiona Apple - Left Alone
10. Annie - Me Plus One
9. The New ****ographers - Bones of an Idol
8. Tyler, The Creator - Analog (feat. Hodgy Beats)
7. Dirty Projectors - Two Doves
6. Justin Timberlake - Don't Hold The Wall
5. Florence + The Machine - Seven Devils
4. Banks - **** Em Only We Know
3. Jack Johnson - Inaudible Melodies
2. Shania Twain - Black Eyes, Blue Tears
1. Rachel Stevens - Crazy Boys

11 - Me Plus One - OMG, that spoken word pre-chorus! LIFE-giving.
10 - Left Alone - vocally, it's one of her strongest but it's also one of her most challenging songs (which can work for or against it depending on my mood)
9 - Bones of an Idol
8 - Analog
7 - Don't Hold the Wall - ****, he really lucked out by the rest of the picks being lackluster
6 - Seven Devils
5 - Black Eyes Blue Tears
4 - Crazy Boys
3 - Two Doves -
2 - **** Em Only We Know - God, so many people make this kind of music better than her. It sounds like she's looking at the sheet music and sightreading. NO idea how to convey emotion
1 - Inaudible Melodies

Yes, as I mentioned in my write-up, it is entirely referential to classic rock songs, yet much greater than the sum of its parts.

11. Shania Twain - Black Eyes, Blue Tears (10/10)

10. Fiona Apple - Left Alone (8.5/10)
09. Florence + the Machine - Seven Devils (8.5/10)

08. Justin Timberlake - Don't Hold The Wall (8/10)
07. Annie - Me Plus One (7.5/10) --- she has many, many better songs.
06. Tyler, The Creator; Hodgy Beats - Analog (7/10)

05. Banks - **** Em Only We Know (6.5/10) --- one of the *shutters* better songs on this miserable album.
04. The Dirty Projectors - Two Doves (6/10)

03. The New ****ographers - The Bones of an Idol (5.5/10)
02. Jack Johnson - Inaudible Melodies (5/10)

01. Rachel Stevens - Crazy Boys (2.5/10) --- who tf is this

This was a pretty terrible week

I was so hesitant to do this week, as my top track is by an artist I have little to no interest in, and don't particularly care to see more forward. But I cannot tell a lie!

**** Em Only We Know - Wow. Beats Two Doves in pure romanticism; didn't know it was possibly. So eighties, so NOW. 11

Two Doves - 10

Left Alone - 9

Analog - Second surprise of the week. How skateboard punk vulnerable. 8

Crazy Boys - 7

Black Eyes, Blue Tears - Gives me that Eileen sense of a lyric I deride but secretly love! Would be much better if it was full on country re: production.
6

The Bones of an Idol - It pains me to put my babies so low! I love this song, but over the weeks, was genuinely compelled by everything above it? I blame lovesong. 5

Me Plus One - Points off for ridiculing SIGH. 4

Inaudible Melodies - Don't worry Vespie, JJ was giving me that white guy with guitar that I love!

I definitely care very little about the remaining tracks, but I'll give JT the one as I find him to be one of the least convincing figures of popular music in the past twenty five years.