Storm Queen, Look Right Through You - Let's get this party started. Yowsah, yowsah, yowsah.
Django Django, Hail Bop - Nothing to do with Tarentino; everything to do with the sound of psychedelia which, it turns out, never gets old.
Solange, Losing You - Her big sister may make all the noise but she is the real deal. This one will make you want to dance in the kitchen again, even by yourself. It's okay, really.
Passion Pit, Take A Walk - They were everywhere in 2012, but somehow not overplayed. Soundtrack for the "Fiscal Cliff"?
Vintage Trouble, Nobody Told Me - They opened for The Who"s latest tour. Pete still knows his "maximum R&B."
Tallest Man on Earth, 1904 - Soothing and strangely moving, as if it were blowing in the wind. Nudge, nudge.
Bruno Mars, Locked Out of Heaven - What Hall & Oates and Elton were to the 1970's, Mars is for the 2010's: brilliantly irresistible.
Cloud Nothings, Stay Useless -- Heirs to the Strokes, but with less posing. And oooh, I like it loud.
Frank Ocean, Sweet Life - Damn, just one song from the R&B album of the decade? Ok, then this one.
Michael Kiwanuka, I'm Getting Ready - Will I be listening to all ten of these tracks ten years from now? Maybe. This one? Absolutely.
Peace and love to you all in 2013.
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