Promo Listening Experiment Day 4

System and Station "The Magnetic North": Indie fuzz and vocals that are high and strained undermine an interesting composition, sort of McCartney or Davies going progressive. After hearing the initial guitar distortion, I was surprised this wasn't terrible. It ain't no tick, but it's promising, would be better if they'd trusted their retro tastes.

Year In America June 12, 2008

A day late again. Five tracks new to the American Top 40 yesterday. I'm awarding two of them ticks.

( Pussycat Dolls )

( Keyshia Cole )

( Young Jeezy )

( V.I.C. )

( Ne-Yo )