If you read Troy's 4-caws review of Florence & The Machine over at Kindness of Ravens, then you're probably already as struck by it as I was, but when a song gets repeated as much as "Dog Days Are Over" has in the last 24 hours, there's no point pretending that anything else is my song of the week. And Troy's great writing means I get to phone this one in.

Florence & The Machine, "Dog Days Are Over" (2009)

get it on Lungs

It's pretty often that I retch over a white British woman wishing she was a black American soul singer, and it's almost as often that I completely forgive the charade when the songs transcend any of the singer's wishes to be someone else.

So, yeah...file under Amy Winehouse. But it's the sheer intensity of this song's chorus that makes it just an irresistible repeater. While the mandolin and harp textures are a great touch, this song would have had a better life as a disco burner a la "Don't Leave Me This Way" instead of with the hard drums. Maybe someone will remix it.

I don't know why I'm complaining, though. This song is a stunner. The insistence of its sound is an insistence to replay, something I've been more than happy to comply with.