In pitchfork's latest "Top 100 Songs of 2010" list their track 'Round and Round' took out number 1... I don't claim to know everything about popular music but I thought that it was quite odd that a song from a band that I had heard nothing of was better than anything else in 2010. I was curious, so I decided to check it out, and despite that fact that the song is slowly growing on me, I still maintain that it definitely is NOT the best song of 2010. Then I listened to the full album and discovered that it too wasn't blowing my mind despite all the hype... and then, like the cherry on the cake, I saw them in this clip from Jimmy Fallon's show:
... and I just don't really know what to make of this band. The lead singer (I assume named Ariel Pink) looks like a tranny version of the Olsen twins, and he has one of those to-cool-for-school hipster attitudes that makes me wonder if he would prefer to be elsewhere instead of performing on stage... I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I just don't get it... but you can make up your own minds of course.
R. Hunter
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