Do Some Ab Crunches, Pack A Bag Lunch

I Hate You When You’re Pregnant “Tanning Booth” -I’m not quite sure what to make of this little oddity. It’s a super-catchy funk song about getting fake tans set to a slap bass groove straight out of Seinfeld by a dude from Arizona who looks like this. Depending on your demeanor, you may or may not love having the words “tanning booth, tanning booth, you’re my best best friend in the whole wide world” running through your head for the rest of the day. But it will happen, so be careful. (Click here for the official I Hate You When You’re Pregnant site.)

Four Tet “Smile Around The Face” -It may not always seem like it, but I really do try not to be too repetitive in how I describe the music on this site. I’ve fallen back on variations of “it sounds like happy” many times in the past, primarily because that seemed to be the most accurate way to frame the music, but now I feel like I’m just being hacky when I do that. I want to say something else about this song, but no matter how much I think about it, it all keeps coming back to “it sounds like happy.” And it does. It sounds just like happy. Clearly Four Tet knew this was the case when they put the word “smile” in the title and put it on a record called Everyting Ecstatic. Happy happy happy. Enjoy. (Click here to buy it from Pure Groove Records.)

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