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mixtape: hooray for earth
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We first introduced you to New York synth-pop fourpiece Hooray For Earth in our Music Issue. With a booming atmospheric sound filled with major guitar riffs, big-time choruses, and slightly scuzzy vibe, their debut album True Loves isn't just catchy, it's clever. So it seems only fitting that frontman Noel Heroux made a playlist filled with "get smart" songs. In other words, these are tracks he'd play for his (unborn) kids to make them total geniuses. We can't guarantee it will have the same effect for you, but they're all so good, it doesn't even matter.
Nirvana - "All Apologies", In Utero
Yo La Tengo - "Saturday", And then nothing turned itself inside-out
Tricky - "Poems," Nearly God
Suede - "Still Life," Dogman Star
Scott Walker - "It's Raining Today", Scott 3
Radiohead - "Kid A", Kid A
Aphex Twin - "4", Richard D James Album
Bjork - "Hyperballad", Post
Beck - "Loser", Mellow Gold
The Lemonheads - "The Turnpike Down", It's a Shame About Ray
Hum - "Ms. Lazarus", Downward is Heavenward
The Jesus and Mary Chain - "The Living End", Psychocandy
Lightning Bolt - "Dead Cowboy", Hypermagic Mountain
Brian Eno - "1/1 (16.39)", Music for Airports
The Flaming Lips - "A Spoonful Weighs a Ton", The Soft Bulletin
Broadcast - "Corporeal", Tender Buttons
