34) The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Heart In Your Heartbreak
Heart In You Heartbreak is the first single from The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart’s second album Belong, due some time next year. It continues exactly where last year’s wonderful self-titled debut left off. When it comes to addictive, sugary, sweet indie-pop the band have the formula down to a tee and Heart In You Heartbreak is everything you’ve come to expect from the band, albeit with a slightly crisper sound. Kip Berman’s voice is as smooth as it always was and twinned with Peggy Wang’s harmonies the vocals are absolutely gorgeous. Alex Naidus and Kurt Feldman’s excellent rhythm section keeps the track zipping along at a lovely quick pace. Throw is some dreamy, stop-start guitars, synths and the occasional hand-clap and you have yourself a thoroughly brilliant little pop song.
33) Zola Jesus - Night
Night is the opening track to Zola Jesus AKA 21 year old American singer/songwriter Nika Roza Danilova’s Stridulum EP and album Stridulum II. Night is just about as dark as pop music gets. Despite everything that is going on in the track; a steady repeating drum beat, layers and layers of sound, pretty terrifying background howls, not to mention the themes of loneliness and desperation that are lyrically evident, it is Danilova’s absolutely stunning voice that is the real highlight of this track. Managing to be both powerful and vulnerable in equal measure her vocal performance on Night is an absolute pleasure to listen to and augments every other terrifying aspect of the track perfectly.
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