for the munchies

Photo: Dave Gillespie

Broken Social Scene - "World Sick"
Begins and ends in watery, sun-glimmering-off-the-sea-surface guitars. You can definitely find parts of it awash with Do Make Say Think-ish riffs. It's a gradual formation of undulating swells until you hit mid-song where a crash of tides bring it all to a soaring crash of everything we love about rock. It even sets off a car alarm, or so my ears hear each time it subsides. I love this song for it’s wanting to rock out. It totally wants people to shake their heads in unison, making whole venues leap for what’s still right in this sick, sick world. <3

M.I.A. - "Born Free"

Ah, M.I.A. What can I say? I watched this song’s video one morning prior to feeding time and immediately misplaced my appetite. If I had anything at all inside my belly, I think the yammies would have taken care of all that. But we’re talking about the song here, not the tummy-churning visual prop. I’d say I’ve liked many of her other offerings above this, but you know, it’s effin M.I.A.! Her bombastic, cap-lockin’ charm is where it’s at. She yells into a loudspeaker like PSA doing you a true service. “You might try to find ways to be happier you might end up somewhere in Ethiopia.” It may all sound a bit anti-autotune but the best part is when she flips her hair like that. No one, I mean no one can do it the same. Trust.

Sleigh Bells - "A B Machine"

Tough boombox beats warping ‘round looping western guitar. Lift up that rift and say: HOOOoooOH! This can sound off nicely in a car-ride bound for desert or dessert, whatever fits your bumping fancy. Its sweet voices make my ears ache with equal bouts of admiration and envy. What’s it like to have M.I.A. on your side? Must be n.e.e.t. Also check out the contagious “Crown on the Ground” which I assume has no relation to the freaky-leaky offensive tune “Pants on the Ground”. I like my beats hard, and by the end my tympanic membranes are fully satiated. If this is what “Bionic riff missiles” sound like, I’m ready for more superhuman auricle fatalities. Make way for the future, are ya listening? Ho ho ho!