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TrendRobot Rating: 10/10

Listen to Catapult from Cornerstone 10″

So it’s been a few days since Track of the Day has been posted . . . finals and looming financial burdens seem to creep into everyday life and TrendRobot seemed to take a backseat.  My deepest of apologies friends.  Throughout the trials and tribulations, music was there everyday of course, and I couldn’t help but feel like I was in an old mystery movie, complete with a noir soundtrack, written and performed by the new-look, new-sound Arctic Monkeys.

This band has morphed from the tongue-in-cheek, dancefloor punks from a few years ago, into a heady, dark band that is finding a new sound with an old formula.  “Catapult” seems like the sound that Oasis was trying to find all of those years and is just about as close to a Sgt. Pepper’s sound than anyone’s rolled out in years.  Mixing those dancefloor aesthetics and the dark, seductive weaving of intricacies that brings the Arctic Monkeys into a new, drug-induced realm.

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TrendRobot Rating: 8/10

Listen to Written In Reverse

Spoon has to be the re-incarnation of pure rock ‘n’ roll . . . I mean true rock ‘n’ roll before big labels . . . before money and fame were involved.  The indie super-gods are the most infectious, honest act to record music in the last decade and never fail to swagger through their acclaimed catalog.

“Written in Reverse” is the first single from the band’s upcoming Transferrence album, to be released this January.  The track is a dirty, sexy sprawl through a nightclub.  Beer, shot, and chaser; Reverse is a dancefloor seduction with gritty guitar, entrancing vocal lines and a piano fit for Top Gun fame.

Write it in reverse . . . just don’t get too worked up until January.

Please . . . educate yourselves in the ways of Spoon