Gruff Rhys models several outdated trends at once.Photo: AFP/Getty Images
What the World Needs Now Is the Super Furry Animals
The latest MP3s to hit the blogs.
1. Super Furry Animals, “Show Your Handâ€
Wales’ preeminent space-rock absurdists at their most Bacharachian. [The Modern Music]
2. Lil Wayne, “I’m Rawâ€
Also, he’s baked. [Def Sounds]
3. Junior Senior, “Headphone Songâ€
The half-gay Danish dance-pop combo have written a song that’s so good it will actually be released in America. [Stereogum]
4. Example, “I Don’t Want Toâ€
Grime music’s most promising new MC refuses to engage in premarital sex. Mostly by accident. [New Music Albums]
5. Hot Dollar, “Streetz on Lockâ€
Hapless A&R buffoon Jermaine Dupri recently signed this excellent Compton MC to Island/Def Jam, thus delaying his own imminent firing by at least two weeks. [New Music Albums]
—Lane Brown