Slow Club, “Our Most Brilliant Friends” (2010)
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The good part:

“Our Most Brilliant Friends” is that now-rare slice of perfect indiepop. Its lyrics worry about friends, it has a brilliant and enormous chorus, and it has a delicious tambourine sound. It’s that cozy catchiness and a bigness that’s pure joy and meant for friends and not for fame. For anyone who doesn’t get what indiepop is, this is indiepop.

The bad part:

Buy this album and drop it into your CD player/iTunes and you’ll notice that it says this track is over ten minutes long. Oh, no. But oh, yes. There’s another song glued to the end of the end of the track. It is (and I cringe even just typing this out) a hidden track.

This is annoying enough on a CD. But in the digital age, who on earth still thinks it’s clever, funny, interesting and anything but highly annoying to merge two songs together on one track? It honestly blows my mind that people are still doing this. We have ways of splitting up songs, you know. But it really bugs us to have to do it. Why put in obstacles to enjoying your music?

A great song badly delivered.