Random 10 for July 28, 2008

1. Chromeo, “Momma’s Boy.” Love the Supertramp “Dreamer”-style electric piano in the intro, and the transition into Chromeo’s trademark early ’80s synth-R&B groove. Somewhere, Roger Troutman is smiling.

2. Jim Noir, “Look Around You.”

3. Alice Smith, “Know That I…”

4. Evangelicals, “How Do You Sleep?”

5. Thunderclap Newman, “Something In the Air.” Pete Townshend produced the band’s only disc, Hollywood Dream, and if for some reason you think that “Air” is all these men accomplished, you’re deadly wrong. This should have gone on much longer.

6. Remy Shand, “The Way I Feel.”

7. Datarock, “Nightflight…”

8. MC Paul Barman, “School Anthem.”

9. Todd Rundgren, “Mighty Love.”

10. Office, “Wound Up.” Don’t exactly know what’s going on with this band: “Wound Up” was accepted as a free download of the week on iTunes about a year and half ago, and the Chicago group’s debut disc on Scratchie, A Night at the Ritz, came out in late ’07, but six months later the group was sloughing off members and had asked to be released from its contract. Strange animal, this business.