2. The Sea and Cake, “On a Letter” - From the 2008 album Car Alarm (Amazon mp3 link). - Official website. I’ve loved the band The Sea and Cake for a long time now, but don’t ask me which of their albums I like the best. They’re a bit of a blur, quite frankly,...
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3. Pinback, “Loro” - Official website. - From the 1999 album Pinback. Hmmm. I suppose I can continue writing about why it’s so much easier to write about movies than it is to write about music: for the former, the lazy, fallback option is to simply answer the question “So, what is the movie...
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3. Quantic and his Combo Bárbaro, “Linda Morena” - From the 2009 album Tradition in Transition. - Official website The closer I get to the top songs, the more ineffable they become; it’s as if the sheer pleasure of the listening experience as such robs you of wordsmithing faculties. (I think it’s why I...
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5. Passion Pit, “Folds in Your Hands” - From the 2009 album Manners. - Official website. My other favorite album of 2009, Passion Pit’s Manners, dropped like, I don’t know, some sugarcoated candy-flavored meteor from heaven. My friend Laurel claims (I paraphrase here) that it’s “typical Wily Filipino music”, which I take to mean...
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6. Ximena Sariñana, “Vidas Paralelas” - from the 2008 album Mediocre. - Official website. Sigh – two years of Spanish classes in college have sadly failed me for this song, but my lack of comprehension hasn’t stopped me from loving it anyway. (Parallel lives – I got that, at least, but I never did...
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7. Thomas Tantrum, “Work It” (2008) - Official website. - From the 2008 album Thomas Tantrum. From the best album I heard in 2009 – though it’s actually a photo-finish with Song #5 – comes the sassy, saucy, quirky “Work It” – words that should never be used in a dating profile, but are eminently...
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