Everybody Waits So Long

M83 “Teen Angst (Luciano Remix)” – This is nearly twelve minutes of delicate beauty, cutting in two lines of vocals from the M83 original with an expressive but minimal track that develops gradually, but is never at any point dull or unimaginative. If this sounds like anything, it’s almost as though Luciano has fused the sound of Arthur Russell’s ambient pop and disco tracks into one perfect song. (Click here to visit the official M83 site.)

The Concretes “Miss You” – Though they have changed the arrangement significantly, I wouldn’t quite say that The Concretes have made this Rolling Stones song their own so much as they have claimed it to the spirit of the Velvet Underground. In full-on Velvet Underground With Nico/Loaded drag, the essential NYC-in-the-late 60s/70s vibe of the song is intensified. The music fills my head with images from books, magazines, and films from that era of the city, and it somehow manages to make a place where I’ve spent a significant portion of my life seem like some exotic fictional locale. (Click here to buy it from Amazon.)