Songs for the Garbage in Your Head

There’s a specific kind of mental static that accumulates—obsessive thoughts about someone you shouldn’t want, anxiety about money you don’t have, that low-grade hunger for a hit of something that would confirm you’re still capable of feeling alive. You run it off. You throw yourself at a club or a body or a stretch of grass in afternoon sun. Usually it doesn’t work. But you come out of it with a few new songs wedged somewhere useful, and sometimes that’s the closest thing to relief on offer.

Miike Snow, Lykke Li, Owen Pallett. Clean your mind.