Tame Impala - New Person, Same Old Mistakes
New Person, Same Old Mistakes isn't just the final track on Tame Impala's Currents. It's also the final lyric Kevin Parker completed for the album, scribbling notes during a flight from Sydney to New York, where the record was being mastered.
The album is the psychedelic rocker’s most mainstream- oriented to date, and the lyrics here suggest at least some anxiety about a possible backlash from fans. “I can just hear them now,” he sings. “‘How could you let us down?’” But as the groove intensifies, he becomes more defiant. “I know you think it’s fake,” he sneers. “But maybe fake’s what I like . ..”
CeeLo Green - Robin Williams
CeeLo's lacklustre comeback single pays tribute not just to the late Robin Williams, but to a host of comic greats including John Belushi, Richard Pryor, Phil Hartman and Bernie Mac.
Fetty Wap - Trap Queen
A year after its official release, Fetty Wap's ode to love and cooking crack cocaine peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 this month. And frankly, this auto-tuned abomination should come with a health warning. Much like his protagonist here, the New Jersey rapper is pushing a product that is synthetic, corrosive and yet maddeningly addictive.
Girls Names - A Hunger Artist
The first track released from The Belfast band's Arms Around a Vision album was inspired by one of the most famous short stories of the 20th century, Franz Kafka's A Hunger Artist. Kafka's grim tale takes as its subject the purveyor of a morbid form of entertainment that has long since fallen out of favour with the masses. Quite what it is about this story that resonates with a group of 20-something goth-rockers in the year 2015 is anybody's guess.
