1. Wolf Parade, “Kissing the Beehive.” Great new track from Wolf Parade’s second disc, From Mount Zoomer, and ample evidence that the band seems to have weathered the sophomore bummer that afflicted other class of ‘05 up-and-comers.
2. Stevie Wonder, “Creepin’.”
3. The Flaming Lips, “What Is the Light?”
4. RedSkins, “Kick Over the Statues.” An underground classic of British Socialist soul, which was all the rage in the mid-’80s. Dig the old new breed!
5. M.I.A., “Jimmy.”
6. Weezer, “Thought I Knew.”
7. Lavender Diamond, “Here Comes One.”
8. Great Northern, “Babies.”
9. Sparks, “There’s No Such Thing As Aliens.”
10. Adele, “Chasing Pavements.” The Brits are cranking out white soul singers at an alarming pace these days to close the Winehouse gap. Both Adele and Duffy are expert at delivering a decidedly safer version of the Dusty Springfield blue-eyed soul, but even as Wino spirals and becomes even more of a tabloid specter, I mourn the fact that we’re probably not getting any more decent music from the one who started all this.