Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAfter a comparatively slow week leading into the long weekend — which means we only scanned around 100 songs last week instead of the usual 130! — the avalanche of songs is back with a bang.
There are so many that we could have done a “Fri 10,” and we cheated by combining three killer covers that dropped this week into a single item.So with a quick nod to the songs we’ve already covered this week — Janelle Monae’s excellent “Turntables” and Gorillaz’s “Strange Timez,” featuring lead vocals from The Cure’s Robert Smith — and nods to the runners up (“Niki’s “Plot Twist,” Tash Sultana’s “Beyond the Pine,” Daddy Yankee “Don Don,” Alycia Bella’s “Cue the Sun” and Claire Rosinkranz’s “Backyard Boy”), away we go … Ma.
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