Brave Men Run To The Sound Of Fun

Noonday Underground “Put You Back Together” – Think of this as being song one, side A for 2007. Aside from simply sounding like a fresh start, it overflows with measured yet confident optimism, and that’s certainly something that ought to become a running theme for the coming year. Even with a mediocre vocalist, this song would be vibrant and energizing, but Daisy Martey’s performance pushes the recording way over the top as she blasts her voice through the red and into the white as though she’s attempting to burn a hole in the universe with her last high note in the chorus. (Click here to buy it from Amazon UK.)

!!! “Yadnus” – !!! have a tendency for cluttered, busy arrangements, but “Yadnus” (hey look, it’s Sunday backwards, huh…) has a streamlined sound that balances out their skill for both rhythmic rigidity and fluidity better than anything else that they’ve recorded to date. The track mixes a bold swagger with a sound that feels like a shorthand for big money urban decadence, like a bunch of wild west thugs busting up some lame high-end bottle-service bar. (Click here for the !!! MySpace page.)

Elsewhere: I saw the best asses of my generation deployed by YouTube, starving hysterical naked and so forth.