Songs of Interest

I was going to do a post about the new Destroyer album but, in light of some excellent posts over at Zoilus and Said the Gramophone, I'll wait until closer to the release date to join the critics' love-in. In the meantime, here's some songs that I've meant to post for a long time but haven't got around to and another song that I just stumbled upon one minute ago.

Angels of Light & Akron/Family - Raising the Sparks
I don't know where to start. This is a religious revival in the parking lot of a Judas Priest concert. It's teenagers setting fire to their parent's record collection in a bonfire in the backyard. It's the high school smoke pit rising up in revolt against the school board. It's that guy you know who did acid in his eye almost hitting you with his truck.
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Pink Mountaintops - The Solo Sex
This is what Sonny and Cher's "I've Got You, Babe" would have sounded like if it was written about masturbation. McBean's call-and-response to a smaller, more high pitch McBean can't help but be disturbing in it's own right but becomes even more disturbing when you imagine it as conversation between man and member.
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Pink Mountaintops - New Drug Queens
This is from the upcoming "Axis of Evol" album and heralds beautiful things to come. It's about sex in the the same way that the Redd Kross song "Linda Blair" is about drugs.
[Jagjaguwar PM Site]