The best song this week is "Tower of Silence" by Antarctica

I’ve been on a four-on-the-floor kick ever since I needed to block the world out and read in airports and on airplanes on a recent trip to Florida to kickstart the golf season. That meant a lot of The Field, which then made me go “ooooh, Antarctica.” And so despite the weather being warm and sunny and Antarctica being rather aptly named and perfect for frigid weather, I put on 81:03 on the flight from Norfolk to Jacksonville and the screaming baby three rows up was silenced -- good sound-isolating earbuds are key to successfully relaxing air travel -- and it made for perfect background music that occasionally pushed its way through the printed word and called for focus.

There’s something about the icy drum machines (or are those vdrums? or both?) with the icy guitars with that icy reverbs and the icy synths burbling in the background that makes everything...invitingly icy, in a sort of “winter is gorgeous” way. They’ve listened to plenty of The Cure, sure, but they axed some cheese and added some motorik rhythms under the distant, yearny vocals that might be annoying if they weren’t draped in reverb and drowned in the mix.

“Tower of Silence” combines all the best parts of these with an instantly hooky guitar/synth war in the intro and a beautiful guitar/synth peace in the coda. Listen now before the sun really heats up and makes this kind of music just not make sense at all until November rolls around.