Random song roundup

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Since I have my computer up and running again, I have Flash installed and can actually watch videos on YouTube. Here are some new(ish) songs I kind of dig:

E For Explosion - "I Explode"

Obviously this band has cursed themselves by naming a song after their moniker (or vice-versa). Still, it has an epic sweep which sounds like it belongs on a concept album.

The Airborne Toxic Event - "Sometime Around Midnight"

Speaking of epic, you know you're a poet (or a lyricist) when you can write several verses about how someone won't have sex with you. Sometimes I'm a sucker for a sappy, melodramatic, broken-hearted pop song and this is as sappy and melodramatic as they come. The indier-than-thou twats at Pitchfork hate it, of course.

M83 - "Kim and Jessie"

Somehow there was a disturbance in the space-time continuum and this single was released in 2008 rather than 1983 - and thank goodness for that!

Bloc Party - "Talons"

I believe this would be the second single from Bloc Party's third album Intimacy. A tense, high energy song that demands to be played loudly.

Emmy The Great - "We Almost Had A Baby"

From post-punk revival to neo-folk, this is the first song I'd ever heard from Emmy The Great and it has made me curious about the rest of her repertoire. First impression: we've got a follower of Ani DiFranco and Regina Spektor with a slight dose of Jewel way back when the blonde songstress from Alaska released her first album.