A Year of Music

I have most of the Severed Heads catalog loaded onto my iPod, and every so often I find myself wondering if, just maybe, I've listened to this stuff enough for one lifetime. But then a song like "Goodbye" (from Cuisine) comes on, and its combination of repetitive weirdness, electronic precision and unapologetic poppiness reminds me why I have all their stuff in the first place. That song's just so effortlessly beautiful, and there's more than a few handsful of songs just like it scattered throughout their output. Tom Ellard is a mostly unsung pop genius.