Special Guest Post By Eppy From Clap Clap Blog!

Ralph Myerz & The Jack Herren Band “L.I.P.S.T.I.C.K.” – Am I supposed to be embarrassed about liking Dmitri From Paris’ late-90s album Sacrebleu? It always just sounded so good, driving around central New York in my parent’s Corolla with the air conditioning on. Anyway, this song sounds like what Dmitri should be doing today, as it’s strongly influenced by Gallic lounge-pop, but gleefully tainted by disco, melding its relaxed atmosphere with a straightforward beat and gorgeous string runs. Would that more nu-disco acts incorporated the latter, and would that more songs were as great as this. (Click here to buy it from Amazon.)

Geoff Reacher “You Like My Song” – Geoff Reacher’s bio lets us know that “It sounds live because it is…sequenced and variously twisted in real time using a foot pedal rig.” It’s a testament to the quality of this song, a MIDI-breakbeat-laden pop-country kissoff tune, that the liveness isn’t even an issue. The flourish of strings at the beginning draw you in, the drums tumble over themselves, and if Reacher can’t quite hit the high notes, well, it just serves to nicely undercut his message of “you’ll be dead in no time.” The track ends with a two-minute FX romp that, appropriately, sounds like a drum machine and acoustic guitar slowly expiring. (Click here to buy it from Geoff Reacher’s site.)