Tomorrow Tomorrow Today

Midnight Juggernauts “Shadows” – “Shadows” might be a song about something. There’s words, and there is singing, but it’s all secondary to the simple snap of the beat, the relaxed bounce of the bass line, and these breezy, colorful synth parts that just sort of float through you. The song makes you passive, but it’s not the sort of tune that picks you up and throws you around. You just go with it, and it takes you someplace nice where it’s hot enough to be acutely aware of your body, but cool enough to chill you out. (Click here to buy it via Midnight Juggernauts’ MySpace page.)

Liars “Freak Out” – I’ve had a lot to freak out about recently, but it’s…okay. It’s okay, I guess. And that’s what this song feels like — oppressive heat and humidity melting worries into little ice cream puddles, nervousness mutating into boneheaded confidence because you’re too lazy to be self-aware, and the sort of dumb luck that only comes when you are not trying, at all. (I wonder if the Liars only gave themselves permission to write this sort of perfect zoned-out surf rock song because The OC is off the air now. I’m kinda serious.) (Click here to pre-order it from Amazon.)

Elsewhere: While the Nouvelle Vague chanteuses crooned in the background, I suffered through a clumsy fondling session that wouldn’t have been even note-worthy in the tenth grade. Except for the part where he looked at me lustily and said “you know… I have Jake Shears’ number in my phone.”