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FTF is in summer repeats. Well, sort of. For those of you who feel that nothing should be repeated, that music should only be new, new, new and nothing but, you’re going to be a little disappointed that today’s installment features a band already featured. The rest of you will wonder what the hell the big deal is, while those of us who fifteen years ago would feel a panic attack at the very thought of including the same band twice on a mix tape totally understand.

Headlights, “On April 2″

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“Cherry Tulips” was the first song to catch my ear on the Headlights lovely indiepop drop Some Racing, Some Stopping, but this one has easily become my favorite song on the record. The loping melody here is highly whistleable and perfectly suits singer Erin Fein’s voice, and the choice of the snare hits is a excellent match for the popping vocal and guitar, proving that sometimes the simple choice is the best one. The song hasn’t really left my head all week.

Added to my library this week…
It was a busy week for the staff of the Download department in my computer. I had one of the biggest hauls of a New Release Tuesday that I’ve ever had in the digital world. Now that I’m all (well, mostly) legal with my downloads, Tuesdays have started meaning something again.

• Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes. I’m really surprised by how fantastic this record is. I was a little underwhelmed by the EP, but was overwhelmed by “White Winter Hymnal”. This record shows that the “White Winter Hymnal” was more of an indicator of the quality of the record than the EP.
• The Cool Kids, Bake Sale. Yeah, it’s more retro rap, but they’ve gone a little past that just by making the beats really hard. Sounds great.
• Spiritualized, Songs in A&E. Didn’t really strike me on first listen, though, to be fair, I was playing it quietly while I was doing other things. It has a samey quality to it, almost like the songs are all in one of two keys. What? Really? Oh, right.
• Ladytron, Velocifero. It’s nice enough, but I know that Ladytron will never come close to matching 604. Which is a little sad.
• Various, Mojo Presents the Changing Man. The Paul Weller-inspired Mod comp that came with the most recent edition of Mojo. I usually let these comps turn up on my Never Played playlist. In other words, haven’t heard any of it yet.
• Douglas Armour, “Fall Apart Again”. Found on Fluxblog. Some nice pop/indie stuff of the kind that Fluxblog is great for finding.
• The Pastels, “Nothing To Be Done”. We’re playing a cover of it at the Sprites show on July 15th at the Red and Black. I figured I should probably have it in my library.

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