The Micragirls - "Rockin' Date"

The Micragirls, here, have distilled everything from their music save the core necessary elements: simple (as guitar class), familiar (as brand names) structures, played like they've been told they're "too quiet", and covered in delicious screams. I think on this track, they went so insane that they were locked out of the studio, but just did their screaming from behind the door. [Buy]

The Besnard Lakes - "Cedric's War"

Don't give up on this song. Just pretend you're listening to The Mamas & The Papas, on a phonograph that plays while you eat dinner with your family, you're 14. Do whatever you would actually do in that setting. Spread your food into a pattern, examine the clear edges of the milk as it bonds to the glass, rub the inside of the chair leg with the top of your foot. Then at 2:34, you'll be rewarded, let out to do whatever you want with your August evening, your first summer of real "freedom", and you'll bike down to the yellow open-air canteen and listen to Beach Boys through a loudspeaker, sipping ginger ale and trying to fit in. [pre-order]