Litsa de Chad 2009 - Bailamos Edition

Chad Spielmann's best albums of 2009

1. Dirty Projectors
Bitte Orca

magnificent solid album completely through. kudos.

2. Grizzly Bear- Veckatimest 2009 was the year of bringing the music back to New York City. The second Brooklyn renaissance is producing great music and Grizzly Bear is leading the pack. ;) These guys are absolutely fantastic musicians and composed a great album all the way through. Seeing a band perform the record live is crucial to me and unlike Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear really translated the record live at the Pabst Theater this year and also carried it over to a festival performance at Pitchfork.



3. Girls- Album
The first listen hooked me. Great lyrics, catchy guitar riffs, acoustic/electric/fast/slow, its a fun album.







JJ- jj jj n° 2

This album is fantastic. JJ, a mysterious duo from Sweden, combines global hip hop, island beats, ambience and to top it off, beautiful swedish female vocals. Do not be discouraged by the blood stained pot leaf album cover, the main theme is the pursuit of love/happiness. Its also a great dance album full of fresh beats to shake the ass.

5. Japandroids- Post-Nothing
"I don't want to worry about dying, I just want to worry about those sunshine girls." This Canadian duo stole my summer with their very fuzzy guitar drenched album, Post-Nothing. It's not complicated but very catchy and lodges in your brain. I had the pleasure of catching these guys at Pitchfork Music Festival and High Noon Saloon in Madison. Much like the album, the live Japandroids set is non stop energy and the loudest thing you will ever hear. And Japandroids... awesome band name.

6. Pains of Being Pure at Heart
-Pains of Being Pure at Heart/Higher than the Stars E.P.
Along with M83 and the Japandroids, Pains of Being Pure at Heart is great summer music. This album is like a 5 hour power drink for your ears.

7. Pink Mountaintops- Outside Love
3rd album from Black Mountain's Stephen McBean. Lo-fi psychedelic rock at its best. "im a vampire. you can suck out my blood. but you cant suck out the heart of my love.

8. Animal Collective
-Merriweather Post Pavilion
It was decided early on that this album would make my list and made me revisit Strawberry Jam and the latter albums a lot more. I will have to admit I wasn't a fan behind the touring of Merriweather Post Pavilion from the minamalist stage set up to the off key songs. Strawberry Jam held up way better not to mention they had the best stage lights since My Morning Jacket - Riverside two times ago.



9. Fanfarlo- Reservoir
This album will soon be stuck in your head. London indie based outfit with heavy mandolin, trumpet, violin use. For fans of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Harlem Shakes. Such a damn good catchy record.








10. Bibio- Ambivalence Avenue

I think this album deserves more attention. British music producer Stephen Wilkinson combines infectious hip hop beats, swanky guitar riffs and great vocals to sew together a pretty solid album worth your listen. Each song sounds as if it was produced by a different artist. Theres some ambient atmospheric jams and also some acoustic guitar accompanied by some more fresh beats and samples. Fresh beats.

Ryan Miller's Top 10 of 2009

10. Far - Regina Spektor -- That 4.8 rating from Pitchfork I think put an unfair snuf on the buzz surrounding this album. And I kind of liken her to the Weezer of the indie world. Soviet Kitsch was amazing and quirky and one-of-a-kind, just like the Blue Album and Pinkerton. And now, I think all the fans of Soviet Kitsch kind of feel jilted after every subsequent release because it doesn't sound like Soviet Kitsch. They'll still buy the albums, but be disappointed because there aren't any songs that sound like "Poor Little Rich Boy". Boo freaking hoo. Get over it. She's evolved since 2004. The songs on Far are great pop songs that come with the special touch that only Regina can provide. Whether backed by a band or just solo with her piano, these songs are great additions to her catalogue, and I look forward to seeing them played live some day.

9. Still Night, Still Light - Au Revoir Simone -- Three keyboardists and a drum machine. A great premise, and fortunately, the songs deliver too. In this world where it's so much easier to go the pre-programmed route, the three play their keyboards live, and really have a unique sound. The versitility of the keyboard is featured front and center, and it doesn't leave you longing for any kind of extended guitar solo. The song that I fell in love with was "Shadows". All three ladies spend some time on vocals, and their vocal style is more likely to be compared to Khaela from The Blow than the girls from the Dirty Projectors. Very sweet and soft, just letting the microphone do all the heavy lifting.

8. "Phrazes For The Young - Julian Casablancas -- This is what a side project should be -- an album that you couldn't make with your day job. While there are certainly parts that sound a bit Strokes-ish, the new wave influences and synths might stick out like a sore thumb on a Strokes record. You can hear remnants of "Don't You Want Me Baby" in the song "11th Dimension", and remnants of "I Ran" in "Left And Right In The Dark". These aren't guitar-driven 2:30 long songs....the shortest song on the album is 4:05, with most of them clocking in around the 5 minute mark. A lot of thought went into these songs, and while the risks he took certainly had the potential to be disasterous, I found this album to be extraordinarily fun. I'm a child of the 80s.....this stuff is great.

7. Dark Was The Night - Various Artists -- What an amazing compilation, and what a great cause. For the guys from the National to do the legwork and all these artists on board for this compilation...that's a feat in itself. It's a slew of artists that have been mentioned plenty of times on this blog over the last few years. And it's not a bunch of throw-away songs from the artists either. This was an essential album this year. It was great to get new music from bands like Arcade Fire, The National, My Morning Jacket and others while we wait for new proper albums from them, hopefully in 2010 sometime. The Dirty Projectors duet with David Byrne was one of the best songs of the year.

6. The XX - The XX -- It doesn't need to be loud to be great. It doesn't need to have wacky time signatures to be unique. This album was a breath of fresh air. I'm happy to see that this made a lot of other people's lists, and I don't have much to add that hasn't already been said. I would nominate "Crystalised" as one of the songs of the year.

5. Fantasies - Metric -- A solid album start to finish from a band that has been doing this sort of thing for awhile, but not really been recognized for it. "Help, I'm Alive" started out on Indie Soundcheck, and then got picked up into regular rotation, and is currnetly the 11th most played song on WLUM this year. Once it did go to regular rotation, the question for me wasn't if we were going to play another song from the record on my show...the question was which song was it going to be. I'm not an Emily Haines tire-pumper....I didn't think her solo/side project was very good at all, but I loved this Metric album. I knew early on that this was going to be on my list.

4. The Hazards Of Love - The Decemberists -- It's all about execution with the Decemberists. They wanted to do a concept album with a weird story line, and then came the Crane Wife. Mission accompished. They wanted to do a rock opera with a weird story line, and then came The Hazards Of Love. Mission accomplished. I'm not really sure why it wasn't met with the same critical priase that the Crane Wife received. So there wasn't a big radio single to rally behind. Big deal. I admire that they challenge themselves and stand behind the finished product. Even if you don't follow the storyline, the music is still the Decemberists at their best and most creative. Shara Worden steals the show with her part in "The Wanting Comes In Waves - Repaid". I still have not gotten tired of that song. And I can't wait to see what the band does next.

3. Manners - Passion Pit -- I didn't catch on right away. The voice....there was something about the voice that took awhile to click for me. "Sleepyhead" was the first song I had heard after the EP was released last year, and I was focusing too much on the voice instead of the song as a whole. Once I was able to not be so short-sighted, I was able to get behind that song, and then the entire Manners CD once it was released. It's an album of songs that could all be singles. "The Reeling" and "Little Secrets" are both among my favorites of the year. And then what solidified everything was their performance at Lollapalooza on one of the side stages. While Cold War Kids had the privledge of playing to empty softball diamonds on the south end of Grant Park, the street was packed for the Passion Pit show. It was an amazing rush. As tightly packed as we were, everybody seemed to have the biggest smiles on their face during their set. And the crowd surfers....I don't go to a lot of shows where that sort of thing happens....and if I am at one, I'm not usually close enough that I have to be on the lookout so I don't get kicked in the back of the head. But man, that show was the highlight of the entire festival.

2. Lungs - Florence + The Machine -- I saw Matty B took a shot at her in his top 10 writeup, and I'm not sure what his gripe with her is (and not to take anything away from the point he was trying to make...that Bat For Lashes is pretty awesome...I definitely agree)....but I look forward to having that conversation at the listening party. I thought this album displayed a very versatile singer/songwriter, blessed with a set of vocal chords that were designed to make music. The interesting instrumentation (love the harp) and the great hooks caught my ears immediately. She wrote songs....not verses and chorus and more verses. The attention to detail is incredible, and her producer deserves a ton of credit too. The record promoter was pushing "Kiss With A Fist", which really isn't that representative of the whole album. In fact, it was probably the least unique and interesting song on the album, as it sounded a whole lot like Ida Maria. At the same time, the song displays an edge that further illustrates her versitility, and makes her a whole lot more interesting. She's sweet, but she might throw your TV out the window if you do her wrong. "Dog Days Are Over", "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)", and her take on "You've Got The Love" are more representative of the finer points of the album. The XX actually put together a remix/remake of "You've Got The Love", which is outstanding in its own right.

1. Junior - Royksopp -- I'll probably be the only person with this on my list...but there isn't a record that I listened to more and enjoyed more than the record from this electronica duo from Norway. They don't do a ton of their own singing on the record, and the folks that they got to help out where casted perfectly. Karin from The Knife and Fever Ray takes the lead on a pair of songs. Robyn and Lykke Li both have contributions with fantastic results. The first single, "Happy Up Here" borrowed a riff from an old Parliament/Funkadelic song, and had a music video that referenced the old Space Invaders video game. Fun, right?! Yes it is! Robyn sings on "The Girl And The Robot", which the Pitchfork reviewer described like so: "...accounting not only for the best track on the album, but possibly of the year: Influenced in equal parts by Italo disco and "Blue Monday", "The Girl and the Robot" is a frigid, winding bit of electro that combines a powerhouse vocal with some slippery chord changes and one of the biggest choruses of 2009 so far." I don't always agree with Pitchfork, but I think they are spot on in that assessment, (and they wrote it a lot more eloquently than I could have. ) Karin's best moment came on the 4th track, "This Must Be It", and should be considered as some of her best work. I don't even care for Lykke Li all that much, but she was perfect for her song. Great songs, great production, great result. #1 for me.

Thanks for reading. See you in a couple weeks.

Shanimal's Top 10 of 2009

Brand New-Daisy

Brand New has always been there for me during difficult times, and this album proves the same. This album is similar to Deja Entendu and The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me. Jesse Lacey & company took the same formula and built on it. Although Deja Entendu and The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me are aesthetically more pleasing, I got very much into this album. Stand out tracks include: At The Bottom, Bed, and Bought a Bride. I can’t believe no one else considered Brand New for a Top 10 position. Am I the only one that still thinks their music is amazing? Or did all you guys give up on them after Deja Entendu?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr3jP68k1-A&feature=PlayList&p=4665DF7FAD35CF2C&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2

9. Japanadroids – Post Nothing

Well played gentlemen! I have nothing further to add from my predecessors. This album fucking rocks my socks off!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdX_V4h4zH4

8. Ida Maria-Fortress ‘Round My Heart

This is actually analbum I purchased and paid for on Itunes, legitimately! How bout that? This woman is very reminiscent of Chrissie Hynde from the Pretenders. Very raw emotion,and an honest voice. This is an album that I can sit at home and listen to by myself or if I’m out at a bar, get wasted and take shots of Jameson to. She has a wonderful voice and this album displays that well. Favorite tracks include: Oh My God, I Like You So Much Better When You’re Naked, Stella, Morning Light

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdhxLEpODCA

7. Karen O. And The Kids- Where the Wild Things Are OST

So Karen O. decides to take her band, Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox, Aaron Hemphill from the Liars and two guys from the Dead Weather and they make up her “kids”. I loved this movie and I thought that the music really fit with the movie. I am a big kid at heart so this album was great for me to listen to. Favorite songs included : All Is Love, Capsize, Worried Shoes, Hideaway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTtddTpl4m8

6. Animal Collective-Merriweather Post Pavilion

I really have nothing to add to this either, knew it was going to be on my Top 10, and I knew it was going to be one of the best of 2009 for me and many of my indie music loving friends. Seeing them play in May really solidified their fact that this album is awesome and they are also. Kudos to the Fall Be Kind EP as well. Well done!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zol2MJf6XNE

5. Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career

This album was considered for my Top 10 but I didn't know where to put it. Seeing them at Turner Hall for the first time a few weeks ago really made me love them more and reconsider this albums place on my Top 10. I am a BIG, BIG fan of the female vocalist, and Tracyanne Campbell really does it for me. That petite Scottish woman has a voice that really translates well in this album. Very relatable, emotional and honest lyrics on this album. Would gladly see them again live. Thoroughly enjoyed the show and this album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3CkfvYMCWM

4.Yeah Yeah Yeah’s – It’s Blitz

I know, it’s the second time a YYY’s affiliate have a place on my Top 10,but seriously how come more people don’t have this album on theirs? This was another band that I had the pleasure of seeing this year, although it was at the Rave. The song that really got me tuned into this album is the fourth track on it called Dull Life. “We’ve seen the nightmare of the lies that you speak/The beast that I lie beneath is coming in” Fricken catchy song! Other standouts included Soft shock, Skeletons, Heads Will Roll (which Passion Pit does a very nice remix of) Runaway, and Zero

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki0yJ5lFDy4

3. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeaus
Phoenix

This album was defiantly a summer album for me. A band that Brian Moshe got me into, I will thank him for doing so. I did find it rather odd that Nissan is using them in their car commercials, but “1901” is one pretty catchy song, and it’s one that I have the ringtone set to on my phone. Not too much to add here but this is a great album! Hopefully a band I will get to see live soon!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BJDNw7o6so

2. Arctic Monkeys – Humbug

Have always been a big Arctic Monkeys fan, and did have the pleasure of seeing this band for the first time ever play at the Rave in Milwaukee. Alex Turner really can show how dark he can be in this album. There honestly is not a song that I dislike on this album. I do have the bonus Japanese edition on it which has a mean cover of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds “Red Right Hand”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8FWnscrnb0

1. Passion Pit - Manners

I got very interested in this album over the summer as well and it has carried over. The other night I was watching this band perform on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and got super excited to see them live. I missed them at Lollapalooza this year and I have been dying to see them. Their music just gets me up and dancing and puts me in a better mood. I can’t really stress how much I love this album and how amazing these guys are! Xoxoxo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqN4iCRSQCM

Honorable Mentions:

Girls-Album

Atlas Sound – Logos

Grizzly Bear- Veckatmist (got into this one right when it came out but couldn't find a place for it in the Top 10)

Dirty Projectors- Bitte Orca

Muse- The Resistance

Wilco-Wilco (The Album)

The Antlers – Hospice

Evan's Lisztomania/ Merriweather List Pavilion/ Veckatimlist

As usual, it's been a joy reading all the lists posted here; I've found them far more interesting and insightful than most of the major end-of-the-year lists, which are as homogenized and interchangeable as I've ever seen them this year. Here are my own picks, cross-posted from my regular music blog.

10. Telekinesis – “Telekinesis!”



Like a lot of young people with big ambitions and even bigger anxieties, Telekinesis’ Michael Benjamin Lerner can't sit still. He spends his band’s debut album darting around the globe, from America to Tokyo to London, over mountains and across seas, in search of the magic shortcut that will suddenly make the rest of his life fall into place. Lerner’s eager, kinetic power-pop riffs, engineered for maximum catchiness by producer Chris Walla, are so urgent they suggest he’s racing against some imaginary clock, as if he fears his youth were on the brink of sudden expiration. His marathon quest never yields the easy answers he wants or the love he seeks, but it pays off in hooks on one of the sweetest guitar-pop albums of the year.

9. Megafaun – “Gather, Form and Fly”



The North Carolina trio Megafaun revisits the past 50 years of American music on its sophomore album, basking in ’60s folk, ’70s country-rock and bluegrass or all eras. They do so, however, not as revivalists but revisionists, re-purposing these influence into restless new compositions. To Megafaun, American music is a puzzle that has yet to be fully cracked. “I can’t read a painted picture of life as it was in the past,” they sing on “Impressions of the Past,” a shape-shifting orchestral suite that sheds its entire skin three times over, “Impressions of the past will be moored until I find what it is I’m looking for.”

8. Method Man and Redman – “Blackout! 2”



Method Man and Redman’s belated follow-up to their 1999 team-up Blackout! improves on the original in every way, eschewing cartoonish filler in favor of ecstatic hooks, colossal funk and some welcome concessions to contemporary rap that take the duo on an overdue trip outside their comfort zone, most impressively on the southern-flavored UGK homage “City Lights.” Red and Meth’s respective hot and cold flows are fundamental complements of each other, and their chemistry is particularly potent here, with both rappers on the top of their game. Even curmudgeonly old Method Man sounds like he’s having a ball.

7. Grizzly Bear – “Veckatimest”



The compositions on Grizzly Bear’s third album seem fluid, twisting in dramatic, unexpected directions as if following a whim of their own. In reality, each harmonic surprise was meticulously scripted and most likely thoroughly researched, given how studiously Veckatimest resurrects so many forgotten and out-of-vogue forms of American music. Tin Pan Alley, barbershop, church choirs and waltzes of both the jazz and classical variety ground these arrangements, but these sounds are paired in ways they’ve never been before, creating a record that’s both antique and modern. In a year marked by consensus buzz albums, Veckatimest was the universal critical darling that most deserved its accolades.

6. The Church – “Untitled #23”



Old dogs can teach themselves new tricks. Thirty years into their career—and 20 years after their brief commercial peak—The Church have recorded one of their most striking albums yet, a genuine psychedelic masterpiece. Untitled #23 retains all The Church’s hallmarks—the warm, effusive melodies; the complex guitar interplay; the surprising tangents—but it strikes a tone distinct from anything else in their discography. The band resists playing to their usual strengths for shimmering guitar-pop or grandiose, surround-sound rock, and instead attempts something less immediate. Untitled #23 is resigned and melancholic, its guitars restrained and its hooks hidden behind a shadowy, psychedelic haze. It’s a Rorschach inkblot of an album, and each listen lends itself to a new discoveries and interpretations.

5. Antony and the Johnsons – “The Crying Light”



On Antony and the Johnson’s 2005 album, I Am A Bird Now, Antony confessed his fear “of that middle place between light and nowhere,” but The Crying Light finds Antony beginning to pine for the purgatory he once dreaded. “I need another world, a place where I can go,” he sings. The Crying Light isn’t as penetratingly sad as I Am A Bird Now, where Antony had not only to contend with issues of mortality but also of gender identity. On that album, Antony’s piano threatened to spiral into madness, but here it just basks in the quiet beauty of these simple, peaceful songs. And though two dozen musicians color The Crying Light, they make themselves as unobtrusive as possible, never attempting to upstage Antony’s nimble voice. The title track, for instance, ends not in a crashing crescendo, but rather with simple finger snaps.

4. Cursive – “Mama, I’m Swollen”



Cursive’s Tim Kasher has spent the decade battling relationship woes and Catholic guilt, troubles that return on the latest Cursive album along with an even more demoralizing scourge: societal pressure for him to give up the whole art thing and act his age, and the lingering doubts that society may be right. Mama, I’m Swollen opens with a bold fake-out: “In The Now,” the most regressive punk song in Cursive’s oeuvre, a knee-jerk response to charges Kasher behave like an adult, but that tantrum gives way to some of Kasher’s prettiest confessionals yet, horn-kissed, soulful pop tunes that beg for extended psychoanalysis.

3. Passion Pit – “Manners”

In 2009, indie-rock was dominated by slight and synthy sorta-pop records, but Passion Pit’s Manners was the real deal, a stadium-sized, lighters-up, “throw your arms around the person closest to you and let’s have a shared moment” pop album. No other electro-pop album offered anywhere near the blood rush, or for that matter nearly as many great singles.

2. Wye Oak – “The Knot”



The second album from the Baltimore dream-pop duo Wye Oak assures that they will never again be referred to as dream-pop duo. It’s a record that eviscerates its listeners with both tiny, graceful flicks of a penknife and wild slashes from a roaring chainsaw—the chainsaw being singer Jenn Wasner’s guitar, which charges through a few of these songs like a bull in a China shop. Wasner’s new-found fury does nothing to undermine the fundamental gorgeousness of these songs, though, which the band saturates in waltzing violins, mournful horns and textural flourishes. Each fluctuation from loud to soft represents another shift in the power dynamics of a relationship so tangled there’s no longer any hope of a clean escape. The more the couple pulls in different directions, the tighter the knot becomes.

1. The-Dream – “Love Vs. Money”



Contemporary R&B albums don’t usually top these sorts of best-of lists, but then again, there’s never been a contemporary R&B album like The-Dream’s 2009 headphone masterpiece. For its scale and ambition, Love Vs. Money invites comparisons to Radiohead, though it’s not nearly as esoteric as Kid A or even OK Computer. This is a piece of art crafted entirely from the fabric of modern pop radio, all regal synthesizers, dulcet vocal tics, booming, skittering drums. It’s such instant ear candy that it’s easy to overlook how much is going on under the surface, where camouflaged hooks and flowering flourishes further reveal themselves with each listen. The-Dream’s songwriting is similarly multifaceted, juxtaposing disarming humor with bruising emotion. Love Vs. Money’s breezy opening singles give way to an anxious suite charting romance from flirtation to fruition to collapse, which The-Dream narrates with the momentum of a gripping mystery novel. The smartest, most gripping album of 2009 was also the one that sounded best played loud over a pair of car speakers.

Thanks for reading. If you're looking for more recommendations, here are 10 runner-up albums that are nearly as good as the ones above. I also use my Twitter account mostly to talk about music these days, sometimes even music that isn't by Lil Wayne. I'll keep the recommendations flowing there, too.

Carl's Top Ten of '09

Hello internet. My name's Carl and I'm here to let you know about my sophomore posting of my Top 10 albums of 2009. This is a great tradition that has started and though my list will most certainly be different from those already out and those yet to come hopefully it won't repulse too many of you! I'm looking forward to the listening party and hoping to once again jump start my much delayed "indie scene" interest. So, without any further ado... my list:

10) Brother Ali - Us

A white albino guy from Minnesota who lays down some of the sickest freestyle I've heard. Collaborates with another underground hip hop icon in Ant.

Crown Jewel - Brother Ali

9) Matisyahu - Light

His 3rd studio album after much touring and the hit album "Youth". I saw him at Summerfest this year and he was quite the draw.

Struggla - Matisyahu

8) Umphrey's McGee - Mantis

Satisfying my personal jam band requirement for the list, this album is easy and fun to listen to.

Turn & Run - Umphrey's McGee

7) Hatebreed - For The Lions

The album that must go on when there is much mosh pitting to be had. That, or when you need to take out a lamp, pillow, wall, or anything else in your way after a really bad day.

Suicidal Maniac - Hatebreed

6) Lonely Island - Incredibad

Funny, funny shit. I was up in the old stomping grounds of Oshkosh and popped into Molly's (don't ask) and they were playing "On A Boat". Hilarity ensued.

Like A Boss - The Lonely Islan...

5) Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt 2

Ok, I did see this on someone else's list this year... and rightfully so. "The Chef" from Wu-Tang is still bringin it.

10 Bricks Featuring Cappadonna...

4) Japandroids - Post Nothing

Uh-oh... Carl heard of, listened to, and liked an entire "indie" album? Well isn't he all growns up!

The Boys Are Leaving Town - Ja...

3) 311 - Uplifter

C'mon now. Those who know me, knew this was going on. I've been listening to them since 1995 and have no intentions on stopping. Chad Sexton is my personal idol.

Daisy Cutter - 311

2) Dubstep: Various Artists - Tectonic Plates Vol 2

Sorry Matt... I know you said no compliations but it was hard enough to find anything from this genre, available on lala, and with an '09 release date! I started listening to dubstep this summer and must say ever since I've given my subwoofers more than their fair share of workouts.

Trapped In A Dark Bubble - Skr...

1) Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3

Argueably the greatest rapper out of NY since Biggie, Jay-Z once again erupted full force with the highly anticipated "Blueprint 3". The single "Empire State of Mind" with Alicia Keys is a smash hit and was performed at the World Series... works for me. My personal favorite off the album is with Pharrell called "So Ambitious".

So Ambitious (feat. Pharrell) ...