Sam's Best of 2015

Sorry for the delay i got sick and that's no fun but now that I managed to remember here's this years selection...

Entropy-Grimes Fet. Bleachers

This was the first year I really started to take note of the local Kansas City music scene  which this years list actually had 3 bands who've gone on to do some pretty spectacular things which is fucking bad ass.

Now on the topic of this song this 3 minute piece of pop perfection that even now almost 4 years later I hear and truly and agree with what I did back then I'd started around March the day I first heard this song and made a list of songs I thought where great that year and this was the first song I put down and to this day I still believe it to not only be the best song of that year but one of the best of the decade no fucking shit.

Now go back to my post about Cee-Lo Green a few day's ago and you can almost apply the same thing to this track switching the disco tones for tribal beats and a very large and in charge character in Cee-Lo for a very petite and unassuming Grimes and take the questions and throw them straight out the window because this is a great piece of pop music that blends a certain amount of joy even with some fairly sadish lyrics.

Sam's Top 20 of 2015 #1

#1 Entropy-Grimes Fet. Bleachers

So I'm just going to be really honest here I actually started composing this list at the end of March as more an unorganized Spotify play-list of tracks to kind of keep in mind whenever it came to be time to start writing up this list and in all honesty this was the very first song I saved to that list and since that day it hasn't left Number 1 and in all honesty the first time I heard this song I legitimately knew it was probably going to be the number 1 song of the year and here we are my number 1 pick of 2015 Enthropy by Grimes featuring Bleachers.

At it's core this song is nothing more than a 3 minute pop song lead by a very kind of tribal but steady percussion heavy beat that serves to kind of support Grimes light and airy vocals that are very VERY much the absolute blend of borderline diabetes sweet but also gruffy enough to give it's lyrics a bit of girth if not enhancing their kind of depressing tone of the lyrics and the midly heartbreaking expressions of, “Leave me Lonely,” which is kind of Grimes charm in a lot of ways.

What get's me is that this is actually the second time these acts have collaborated the first being one of Strange Desires more underrated cuts in the form of Take Me Away which Grimes kind of acted as the background note to Jack Antonoff and this song is almost like him deciding to take a back seat to her and instead he just acts as the producer.

There's something about this song for me that's difficult to really put into words because it has the most understated quality to it that you just feel like you're listening to the most special thing ever and ever since that first listen I just can't shake that feeling and no matter how many great songs I've heard this year and how many amazing shows I've seen this song just kind of can't be topped and even now looking back I legitimately can't think of another song I wanted to put at this spot and as such here we are my number 1 pick of 2015.

I hope you enjoyed reading this list as much as I enjoyed throwing it together if there was any songs you think I missed make sure to let me know either at my official Facebook page or even my own Twitter account but stay tuned because I may have an announcement come new years for the future of Sam's Song of the day but until then Happy Holiday's and enjoy the best song of 2015....

Song of the Day 5/6/15

So have you ever heard a song so deliciously sweet that you just can't help but get some oddly satisfying warm fuzzies when you listen to it? Well that's what I've seemed to of come across with this newest cut from Bleachers and Grimes in the form of one Enthrapy.

Aside from a very interesting name this song is kind of pure bubblegum poppy glory in about every way from Grimes high pitched sweetly sang vocals to the kind of tribal march of a beat to it's very light lyrics this song just kind of makes things very floaty and adorable and after giving it a few weeks to kind of do it's thing I still find it to be a delightfully dreamy track.

Song of the Day 3/31/15

Enthropy-Grimes Fet. Bleachers

So if you listened to Strange Desires you’ll know that Grimes and Bleachers actually did a track on that album and it’s really quite a good track to but now they’ve decided to get together and have Grimes do the majority of the singing and what we seem to have here is a really sweet little pop tune that’s kind of tribal at parts but with some of the most dreamy verses I’ve heard from any female singer in a while.

This song’s really kind of adorable in a way and if there was any gripe against it I’d have to say that you really can’t hear any backing vocals from Bleachers so it’s like their credit isn’t even necessary but hey that’s irrelevant when the song is this delightfully dreamy.