Tracks of the Week, 4/18/10 - 4/24/10

Another installment of Tracks of the Week? Time flies. Anyways, this week, spotlight's on Tom Waits, Icelandic post-rawkers Sigur Ros, and indie-rock idols Pavement. Thanks for reading, boys and girls!

I'm finally listening to Rain Dogs after being hounded to do it by a friend for quite some time now. I've only given the album a few spins, but so far, no song has hit me quite like "Singapore". Give it a listen if you aren't already a Waits fan; his voice is hard not to love.

While Sigur Ros are most famous for making ten-minute emotional epics, "Hoppipolla" proves that they can jam just as much emotion into a four-minute, Icelandic radio-friendly track and get twice the results. Rock on, Jonsi.

It's truly a shame I never noticed this song on my first 2,000 listens to Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain; Malkmus's voice is at an all time high during the verses of "Gold Soundz", which boast perhaps some of the finest melodies Pavement has ever composed.