That Track With Julian Casablancas, Pharrell Williams and Santogold for Converse. Right here, y'all :)

It's called 'My Drive Thru', it's kinda funky, the guitar line occasionally sounds like it comes in a fraction of a second too late, and it makes one bob winsomely in one's seat. And look at this lovely photo. It's like 'OMGlikeherfootislikethesamefootaslikehisfootthatsliketotallyfreakinAMAZING':


And the phrase "It's summer in the city" just feels like exactly the sort of phrase that Julian Casablancas should be talk-singing. And "We all wanna dance / Just wanna dance, dance" is totally the sort of sentiment the Santogold should be expressing in typically sassy fashion. And Pharrell is just singing in falsetto, which is auditory spectacle enough on its own, so I'm not really that fussed about the actual words.

This is what Santi White (or -ogold) said about the track:
"Everybody on it does their own separate thing and we didn't do it together so it ends up being just this weird long song with sort of everybody with lots of their own personalities separate."
It's better than that would suggest, in that it's not just a load of random shoved-together-ness. Or maybe it is, but it's all tied together with a catchy guitar riff. So y'know - it's fun, and what more did you expect, right?

mp3: N*E*R*D feat. Julian Casablancas and Santogold - My Drive Thru
(for Converse's 100th anniversary)

New Albert Hammond Jr. Single - 'GfC'

First single off the new album, out 7 July, ¿Cómo te Llama?:

mp3: [mp3 removed]
(from ¿Cómo te Llama?)

00:10 - Ooh this is quite catchy. *Smiles, moves from side to side a little bit*
0:25 - "Inside me there's a sad machine" - awww. Poor Albert. Only time will tell whether I shall regret being heir to this knowledge about a machine inside Albert's body.
1:00 - We've had the chorus (during which Albert sounds drunk) and I still don't know what 'GfC' means?! 'Girlfriend Coma'? 'Good for Centre'? 'Graham for Carlos'? 'Graham from California'? 'Graham-free Cereal'? Albert doesn't like Cinammon Grahams?! Or even just ordinary Golden Grahams? Well good, coz they're made by Nestlé and Nestlé are EVIL.
1:10 - OMG this sounds EXACTLY like 'The Sweet Escape' by Gwen Stefani!! With a slightly different pattern of 'woo'-s. This is A Good Thing.
2:10 - Ooh, guitar solo. Much better than Akon wailing about being locked up in his Lamborghini Gallardo or whatever. Akon Schmakon.
3:07 - Oh, it's finished, and there was me spending the last minute of the song thinking about Akon. Oh well, best listen to it again :)