XGAU FRIDAY 068

XGAU FRIDAY 068 by Chris Drumm on Mixcloud

[artist links to Xgau/song links to album] 

Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown, 0:00

Sir Lord Von Raven, I Do!, 3:53

Broken Social Scene, Almost Crimes (Radio Kills Remix), 6:21

Greta Gaines, Braggart, 10:44

Kwamalah Quaye Sextetto Africana, Son of Africa, 14:38

Rihanna, Umbrella (feat. Jay-Z), 17:11

Jeffrey Lewis, Life, 21:47

Lil Mama, Lip Gloss, 24:50

Prince, Guitar, 28:30

Mary J. Blige, PMS, 32:15

Warren Zevon, Ourselves To Know, 37:48

Kékélé, Delali, 41:06

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Phenomena, 46:01

Craig Finn, Balcony, 50:11

Soneros De Verdad, La Más Bella Canción, 53:24

David Greenberger & Dozens, How Records Are Made, 57:10

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Randomized selections from a very incomplete (yet pretty large) playlist of Robert Christgau’s Honorable-Mention mentions and Choice-Cut choices, as well as other song recommendations or even faint praise from Additional Consumer News and from reviews mostly of albums receiving less than an A-Minus. (A-grade albums being best heard whole.)