The Situation’s Out Of Your Hands, Mama

A Sunny Day In Glasgow “The Best Summer Ever” – A Sunny Day In Glasgow’s MySpace page simply states their influences as being “college radio circa 1983 – 1992,” and that’s no joke. The music sounds like the work of a group fully immersed in the underground pop aesthetics of that period, intent on resuscitating musical traditions that have largely disappeared, and are only occasionally revisited in things like Hyped 2 Death‘s compilations and VH1 Classic’s The Alternative program. Interestingly, the members of this band are pretty young, so they aren’t updating the music of their youth so much as the music of their childhood. (Assuming that they were exceptionally cool kids in elementary school, of course.) (Click here to buy it from A Sunny Day In Glasgow.)

Adam Green “Nat King Cole” – It’s Adam Green, and as you can expect, the song is essentially a joke, but if you take it at face value, it’s a pretty fantastic track. He’s singing the entire thing in what I assume is meant to be a fat Elvis voice, but it comes a lot closer to sounding like Glenn Danzig playing a fake Johnny Cash song at a Las Vegas revue. It’s definitely a case of a so-so joke getting over on total commitment and high production values, and (accidentally?) transcending its roots in comedy. (Click here to buy it from Amazon UK.)