Menomena, “Queen Black Acid” (2010)
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Menomena had one of my favorite songs of the 00′s in “Muscle n Flo”, a great song that became incredible at it’s transcendant middle, as arms-raised-to-the-sky as indie ever gets.

That favorite moment of mine was apparently one of Menomena’s favorites as well, because they’ve taken that amazing single moment in the center of a song and turned it into the centerpiece of a new one. The chorus of “Queen Black Acid” has it’s own feel even while it has the same ache of total surrender whose main emotion could be bliss as easily as it could be defeat. A beautiful start to Menomena’s new album.