Kandi (Radio Version)
I’ve been making playlists like crazy this year. I still listen to albums as well, but playlists have been a great way to check out a bunch of new music quickly. I move onto the albums once the contenders reveal themselves.
A handful of songs have warranted obsessive, multiple-replay behavior. The best one by far: One EskimO’s “Kandi”. The song is soulful and poppy without ever getting cloying or cliche. There’s a menacing element to it that I don’t completely understand, but it makes the song sad and sexy and scary all at once. I have listened to it hundreds of times and still love it. You can play it above or download it at your favorite digital record store.
I greatly prefer the single version I posted above to the album track, and though I like the album very much, nothing comes even close to “Kandi” on it.
Others in the running:
- The Cave Singers “At the Cut”
- Say Hi “Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh”
- Metric “Help, I’m Alive”
- Avett Brothers “Head Full of Doubt, Road Full of Promise”
- Julian Casablancas “11th Dimension”
- The Dead Weather “Treat Me Like Your Mother”
- The xx “Crystalized”
- Dan Auerbach “Heartbroken. In Disrepair”
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Heads Will Roll”
