MGMT - "The Youth"

On an AM radio in outer space, MGMT's Oracular Spectacular sounds pretty good. I'm dating an astronaut, and she heard this on her little clock radio the other night. Night for her is just when the earth is dark, she refuses to switch to "space time". But she had an interesting thought the other day in one of her letters (she still writes letters!) she was amazed at how much you can see from space. Just from using google maps and her good binoculars that I bought her before she left, she can follow what she calls "the spirit of the nation". She can watch as red states slowly fade to blue, as crimes and natural disasters spike and dip around the country, as money changes hands, as needless travel blows like a great wind, as families spread out like little fireworks shows. And with a now mountainous amount of data she really agrees: "the youth are starting to change." [Buy tracks]

Ham1 - "Clown-Shoed Feet"

Shuffly, scuffy, and pretending to be lazy, this is an awesome opening to an album. I couldn't hear if the rest of the album lived up to it, I was already out the door, rushing off to 28. [Buy]