Cults, “Abducted” (2011)
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We do a lot of heavy lifting every week here at Fine Tune Friday headquarters to make sure that you’re getting nothing but the toppest quality of song; nothing but the best song in the world that week, set aside for you on the sterling platter that is this website (just so you know, the server is made out of solid gold).

But sometimes, in our hours-long editorial meetings in a smoke-filled newspaper room in the 1950s, we wonder if maybe there isn’t some way where we can put a stamp on the best of the best. As grizzled old newspaper man and former war correspondent Fred “Smithy” Smithy often chimes in with over his 11 am Manhattan, “It ain’t enough t’ tell ‘em this is the best song. Ya gotta say what’s the best of the best or it ain’t shit!” Oh, and we laugh….

He has a point, though. Like this week, you’re probably looking at this song, going through your weekly sweats over whether you can actually bring yourself to listen to a song that might be so great that it’ll make the rest of your life look WRONG, but what if you knew beforehand that it is that great? That it wasn’t just a regular old Fine Tune Friday, but the finest of fine tunes?

This one is. Brill Building spirit with 21st century modern edges, and verse-chorus-verse-chorus simplicity that would coax envy out of Stephen Merrit, and a standout from what’s almost immediately the new frontrunner for album of the year. 50 bucks on Cults! Baby needs a new pair of shoes!

I’m tired.