Best Tracks 2022 Part 3

As my age increases, my testosterone decreases, and my attitude towards life becomes decidedly more melodic and mellow, it has become freed from any need to be trendy whatsoever.

Rewind: Tracks 1991

a bullet express direct from the future, a symphony of jangly breakbeats, blissful piano lines, robot voices, church bells, and train whistles

Best Tracks 2022 Part 2

Pop music thrives on economy. You can always add more and more layers, extended outros, indulgent intros, interludes, bridge upon bridge upon bridge, but the best pop music has rarely subscribed to the idea of “more is more.”

Rewind: Tracks 2013

one of the great trojan horse operations in recent pop history: A reedy disco song about dancing and getting laid disguised as something of far more import.

Rewind: 1986

For those of you who weren’t there, C86, of which both Primal Scream and the Razorcuts were then a part, was the coolest movement ever

Best Tracks 2022 Part 1

a blissfully fuzzed-out bit of indie-pop with a menacing edge

Best Tracks 2021 Part 2

We don’t always want the same thing from music. What we want, or need, depends on temperament, point in life, how the day or week is going and probably many other factors. Often we choose the music we need, but I think sometimes music finds us

Rewind: Tracks 2008

they take all of those influences, remove any concept of subtlety those bands may have had, and plug up the gaps with glockenspiels played directly into microphone. It works perfectly

Rewind: Tracks 2003

the effects of file-sharing on personal taste became unmistakably clear

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