Dirty Projectors, "Stillness Is The Move" (2009)

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Dirty Projector's aimless quirk generally misses me, but "Stillness Is The Move" hits the target...and then makes it explode in a slow-motion action movie kind of way. The stride of the chorus is as luxurious a melody line as you could hope to hear as their Talking Heads worship gives way to Tom Tom Club worship. The complex catchiness of this treads that exciting line of being just pop enough to be a hit, but just odd enough so that everyone would think it was completely unexpected if it was.

Add to all of that the lush keyboards coming in at the end, and you start to understand why the singers got excited enough by the song when we saw them a few weeks ago to get their microphones off the stands and dance around stage, breaking the cool they'd kept up to that point.

I should also mention that I first heard this song when Limo mailed it to me. I got in trouble the last time I didn't give him credit.