First up New York City's
Ratatat did "Wildcat" from their brand new album
Classics (
iTunes,
Amazon) which I think is a notably better album than their previous one. Next London-based Frenchie
Fabienne Delsol (known more commonly as 'the lead singer for
The Bristols') did "When My Mind is Not Live" from her album
No Time for Sorrows (
iTunes,
Amazon) which despite how it sounds came out in 2004 not the mid-60's. Then the Brazilian phenomenon that is
CSS (not 'Cascading Style Sheets', but 'Cansei de Ser Sexy' which is Portuguese for 'I'm Tired of Being Sexy') did their superb hit "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above" from their self-titled debut album (
iTunes,
Amazon). And finally Sweden's Peter, Bjorn and John did "Young Folks" which features former lead singer for
The Concretes,
Victoria Bergsman (who has a new project called
Taken By Trees) from their new album
Writer's Block (
iTunes,
Amazon). iTunes has a new, silly,
set of playlists for "back to school" so you youngin's can know what clique you belong in. Apparently
TSiMH is in the "hipster" clique (as two songs from this week's very show are in said playlist, along with many songs I've played in the past), tho I seriously doubt that label myself. For instance, I don't own any white belts at all.
This week's episode features a clip of Geogre W. Bush being retarded. Watch it.