CANTALOOP: Chocolate.Now here’s an inspirational song subject if there ever was one, but the jazz fusion band can’t resist getting all experimental as they stop, start, change rhythm and pace and never really unwrap their full flow. Their brand of funk, hip hop, soul and blues never stops evolving to such a pitch even Willy Wonka wouldn’t get it.
BEASTIE BOYS: Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win.God bless the Beastie Boys for their great sense of humour and now for this big, brassy, bass-driven reggae that’ll even move feet set in concrete.
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE: Codes And Keys.Slurring strings and thumping piano lift this into the realms of the extraordinary ... and the mainstream.
RAMS: Pocket Radio.Heard of classic rock? Here’s classic pop with a bloke, a piano and a swirling whirlpool of a song that’ll suck you straight in.
