5ingles

Cloud Nothings
"Heartbeat"

Lord Huron

Related Content

• Glenn Beck blames federal investigation into Bachmann on Minnesota's Somali population [VIDEO]
  March 27, 2013
• Woman who allegedly sent Billy Joel's daughter threatening emails found naked in MN woods
  April 15, 2013
• Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan: "If the music wasn't decent, I'd be a footnote at this point."
  October 19, 2012
• Night Moves and Lord Huron at the 7th Street Entry, 10/16/12
  October 17, 2012
• The Smashing Pumpkins at Roy Wilkins Auditorium, 10/20/12
  October 22, 2012

More About

• Cloud Nothings
• Glenn Beck
• The Walking Dead
• Celebrity News
• Arts, Entertainment, and Media

Should Walking Dead or The Glenn Beck Program ever need a black-comedic, tonally dead-on jerk-pop opening theme song, this choice cut—with its "I don't have a heartbeat, why do you?" chorus—would fit the bill to a T.

It's easy, what Dom does, this sort of greasy-haired, wheedling pomp—easy to laugh at, harder to shake. Sort of "you've got your garage-rock in lounge-pop!" Or "why shouldn't Blair Shehan of Knapsack and Billy Corgan duet together?" Why not?

If you pull a Lloyd Dobbler with this pastel roller-skate jam—and how does one do that these days, anyway, with genuine boomboxes so hard to obtain—and she accidentally ass-dials the sheriff's department, then your love-of-a-lifetime wasn't meant to be."

Disclaimer: not a cover of the Vaselines classic, but rather some flickering fog-folk acoustic business that's a cross between running barefoot through damp fields before dawn alone and jamming early Songs of Green Pheasant demos under the influence of over-the-counter cough syrup.

Seriously, fuck all poli-socio "phrase-based" diatribes, regardless of whether they're coming from R.E.M. or Billy Joel or, um, a former member of Black Dice and Lightning Bolt—even when they're as melodically engaging and clever as "Follower" is.