Monsters of Folk, "Losin' Yo Head" (2009)

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This song reminds me a little of "Hoodoo Voodoo" off of Billy Bragg & Wilco's Mermaid Avenue, both because it's a great, cheerful, head-bopper rocker, but also because the compilation its on has made me reconsider the collaborators. I didn't like Wilco before Mermaid Avenue, and it was only that album that got me into them, and likewise, I never liked My Morning Jacket and was a lukewarm on M. Ward, but I'll have to revisit their stuff now.

As a bonus track (read: because I was having a difficult time trying to decide which track was my weekly favorite), here's "His Master's Voice" off the same record. It's an odd-but-beautiful closer to the record, thanks not only to the peaceful arpeggios and dramatic piano stabs, but the stunning and sudden chorus and assonant lyrics.

Monsters of Folk, "His Master's Voice" (2009)

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