Dear Doctors: please excuse Fine Tune Friday from school/work/jury duty yesterday, as he was riding a train. He realizes that he has made a mockery of his name by being published on Saturday, and is very sorry.

Little Dragon, "Blinking Pigs" (2009)

find it on Machine Dreams

It's common knowledge among my friends that our friend Les (aka The Pin-Striped Rebel) is The Greatest DJ In The World™. She has an appreciation for pop like no one else I've ever known, and she can play songs that you'd swear were world-dominating chart hits, but were actually just featured on a little-known British compilation from 1987 or is actually a hidden gem from a band that you know, but never knew could be so good.

So when I looked on her last.fm profile a little while back and found that it had been dominated by a band called Little Dragon, I had to check them out. Les just doesn't steer you wrong.

"Blinking Pigs" is off of Little Dragon's new album, and besides having a killer chorus, it shows exactly what it is Little Dragon does: creates a more modern, blippy version of late 80's adult pop. The way that Yukimi Nagano's voice cracks on the line "now that you're standing closer" is a killer.

Thanks for everything, Les.