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40. Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Heartbreak Make Me A Dancer
Sophie Ellis-Bextor put this Freemasons-produced on her Myspace back in June, but her new album’s been pushed back to next summer, annoyingly. Her frosty dance-pop just keeps getting better and better, and this song was like soothing aloe on all this summer’s nasty sunburns.
39. Miley Cyrus, See You Again
One of my least favorite moments of the year was drunkenly stumbling into a methy and overly-lit gay bar and watching a bunch of old dudes with crackthroat singing and dancing along when this song came on. It almost turned me off Miley’s crush-worthy song altogether, though I can’t get over how much I love the chorus and Cyrus’ Lohan-like delivery (which is a little crackthroaty in its own teenaged way, come to think of it.)
38. These New Puritans, Elvis
England’s These New Puritans are teenagers, too, but the kind that are pale and pimply and into World of Warcraft. Their debut album, Beat Pyramid, was all about numerology, and the Fall-like single Elvis was all paranoia and religious fervor. Which might sound terrible, I guess, but it’s not; singer Jack Barnett’s got a really magnetic earnestness, like Kele Okereke or even somebody like David Bazan.
37. Sam Phillips, Don’t Do Anything
Almost twenty years into her secular career, the artist once marketed as the Christian Cyndi Lauper has made a really surly record, the first since her divorce from producer T-Bone Burnett. Don’t Do Anything’s title track is my favorite, a bittersweet pop song buried in guitar noise that could have been a little Eeyore-ish. Phillips, though, is talented and keeps everything poppy, and this ranks among her best pop songs, right up there with 1989′s What You Don’t Want To Hear and 1994′s sorta-hit I Need Love.
36. Crystal Castles, Vanished
Based on Van She’s Sex City (but also sounding a lot like the instrumental middle bit of Do They Know It’s Christmas?), this song belied Crystal Castles’ image as hipster gross-out attention whores and went for something warmer.
35. The Indelicates, America
“I find myself agreeing with Bill O’Reilly more than the left,” snorts Simon Indelicate on America, a single from his group’s debut album. Them’s fighting words, of course, but at least somebody’s got an opinion on something. Sounding like a cross between Magazine and a Broadway musical, snotty Simon and ex-Pipette Julia do their best to piss you off, but sound so damned likable that it only half-works.
34. Does It Offend You Yeah?, Dawn of the Dead
Everybody hated DIOYY?, and while I admit that their name’s really stupid I also think that Dawn of the Dead was basically the only song I liked all year on modern rock radio. Well, besides Paper Planes, but still. This song’s really awesome, all moody guitars and tropical percussion, and I really don’t know why it got such awful reviews everywhere.
33. Rainbow Arabia, Omar K
Why are these two people wearing desert garb? And what the hell is this lady singing about? Who cares? A dance hit from an alternate universe where microtonal keyboards could inspire spastic flailing, Omar K was the first I heard of LA duo Rainbow Arabia. Enthusiasts of middle-eastern music, the husband-wife duo will hopefully be putting out a full-length soon to follow up their delightful The Basta EP.
32. Alec Empire, New Man
A far cry from the digital hardcore movement that put sexy Mr Empire on the map, New Man is a brooding dance track about blood and mirrors and hearts and dying with love that has “Youtube Twilight fan video material” written all over it, though nobody seems to have figured that out yet. And not that they’re similar, really, but this might have replaced Atari Teenage Riot’s Destroy 2000 Years of Culture as my favorite Alec Empire song.
31. Scary Mansion, Sorry We Took All Your Money
Cat Power’s Jukebox album wasn’t as terrible as everybody made out, but it was nice that Brooklyn artist Leah Hayes was there to fill the quiet/paranoid/slightly-crazed gap that Chan Marshall left open a few years ago. Sorry We Took All Your Money isn’t quite representative of the album as a whole, but it is the song I went back to the most, a fast-ish piano number reminiscent of Cross Bones Style or Nude As The News.
