01/dirty projectors/up in hudson
When David Longstreth opens his mouth to speak on "Up in Hudson", the first words that come out of his mouth are "The first time ever I saw your face...", setting the table for what's in store content wise with this "Once Upon a Time..." But unlike the Roberta Flack song that shares its name with Dave's opening salvo, the thrill is now gone in "Up in Hudson". She's in Echo Park blasting 2Pac, and he's on the Taconic Parkway listening to Kanye, convinced that this is what love does: burns out and fades away, eventually rotting before it disappears completely as it did here. For close to eight minutes (with two of them wonderfully wordless and rambunctious at the end), David recounts the times of a love that once made his heart leap up from a mountaintop over a slinky and fanciful, horn assisted worldbeat like pop number, and comes to grips with her absence and the absence of that emotional security. Every sound bubbling underneath, plus the extreme patience of the track and that of our narrator, is set about to wash away the anger and the pain. And when you sit with "Up in Hudson" and come back to earth after flying away on that wordless cloud, you know that David has made his peace, as well as something incredibly captivating and ambitious out of that boredom and free time that hit him that one time up in Hudson.
03/sza + travis scott/love galore
04/fever ray/wanna sip
05/jay z/the story of oj
06/cardi b/bodak yellow
07/two chainz/riverdale rd
08/future/mask off
09/ema/breathalyzer
10/lcd soundsystem/how do you sleep?
11/j balvin + willy william + beyonce/mi gente
12/thundercat + michael mcdonald + kenny loggins/show you the way
13/drake/passionfruit
14/kendrick lamar + rihanna/loyalty
15/joe goddard/home
16/n.e.r.d + rihanna/lemon
17/vince staples/big fish
18/charli xcx/blame it on u
19/cut copy/standing in the middle of the field
20/haim/right now
21/ariel pink/feels like heaven
22/harry styles/sign of the times
23/lorde/green light
24/st. vincent/los ageless
25/miley cyrus/malibu
04/fever ray/wanna sip
05/jay z/the story of oj
06/cardi b/bodak yellow
07/two chainz/riverdale rd
08/future/mask off
09/ema/breathalyzer
10/lcd soundsystem/how do you sleep?
11/j balvin + willy william + beyonce/mi gente
12/thundercat + michael mcdonald + kenny loggins/show you the way
13/drake/passionfruit
14/kendrick lamar + rihanna/loyalty
15/joe goddard/home
16/n.e.r.d + rihanna/lemon
17/vince staples/big fish
18/charli xcx/blame it on u
19/cut copy/standing in the middle of the field
20/haim/right now
21/ariel pink/feels like heaven
22/harry styles/sign of the times
23/lorde/green light
24/st. vincent/los ageless
25/miley cyrus/malibu
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