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Soul on Fire by Spiritualized, from Songs in A & E (Sanctuary)
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J. Spaceman sings, "I got a hurricane inside my veins," but it's a gentle wind that pushes his voice and melody. A love ode uses a heaven-sent string and choir arrangement to gently swelling effect.
Johnny Cash by Ry Cooder from I, Flathead (Nonesuch)
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A gosh-darned boy is awed by his Sears & Roebuck radio, and if his singer hero is going to Folsom Prison, then that's where he'll go too. A boom chicka boom story-song, on Cooder's third concept album of a trilogy, honours the Man in Black.
Tick Tick Boom by the Hives, from The Black and White Album (Universal)
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It's in the film's trailer, but don't look for this garage-rock blast on the Get Smart soundtrack, cuz it ain't there. And while the movie may or not bomb, this furious 2007 tune still ignites.
Songbird by Melanie Doane (with Jim Cuddy) from the forthcoming A Thousand Nights (Prairie Ocean)
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Slow dancing on a sawdust floor, she knows it's right with a Blue Rodeo harmony singer. The fiddled Fleetwood Mac cover is the kindest made-in-Canada duet of the year, next to the Feist-and-Constantines'Islands in the Stream.
