I'd blame it on teenagers...

Debut-ST

First single, hey...it's the debut single of ST, who is actually Stefan Ternemar. Its beautiful airy romantic pop...reminds me of the love child of the Postal Service and the Pet Shop Boys. I don't know yet if this is actually my favorite song off of the record yet (the album in question is "People I Barely Know". The song is all hug yourself lovey dovey. I could go on and on and on (I have before) but I know I'll write about him again...anyone who writes the lyric "if I had to pick a reason, I'd blame it on teenagers."

Homecoming-Teenagers

"On day two, I fucked her, she was such a slut." Oh how we've all been there (switch around the gender as necessary...). Pretty hilarious and pretty great...again, I always say this, but this time, I mean it...if we lived in a better world, this would be all over the charts and radio (with lots of gaps where they edited out stuff). Imagine if Sonic Youth (her voice on the spoken word reminds me of Kim Gordon) was asked...ok, forced to write their version of "Summer Lovin" from Grease. And Joy Division maybe did the backing track....and no, I am not kidding. The Teenagers have been around for a bit...this is off their debut record, helpfully titled "New Songs And Demos". They've also done quite a few great remixes, most notably for Au Revoir Simone and the Black Ghosts. Lots of buzz buzz buzz. Off of this alone, they live up to the hype. Had I heard this as a teenager, I would have had a way better childhood.

Walk On The Moon-Asobi Seksu

Um, if you leave, don't look back. No, they don't sound like OMD in any way...yet this song, I picture that moment from the movie (sans Andrew McCarthy, I refuse to picture him in anything, to be honest...for me he's an appetite suppressant). Asobi Seksu is a Brooklyn-based band with a Japanese singer, hence the name I guess, which is Japanese for "playful sex". It has a definite (and I almost hate to say this word, since it sounds so dated) shoegaze feel to it...think Lush on its poppier moments. They don't sound like Lush, just think that. I'd say there a perfect example of a band that has totally absorbed its influences, yet isn't redundant...they've done something different with the sound. This is not on the album Citrus, which is great as well...frankly, I don't know where you get this. But get it get it get it. You can wear when you imagine yourself in those "pretty in pink" moments.