I can't stop listening to Menomena's "Muscle'n Flo" and it's starting to become an issue.

"Muscle'n Flo" has a strong but lazy groove, the kind that only flirts with the idea of filling in before retreating to a bridge for contrast. It's more than a little refreshing that the band found a rhythm and didn't drive it into the ground with a thousand permutations and layers of thick, intricate guitar work. A band less self-aware, or perhaps just cockier, would have destroyed that delicate bounce and I think it speaks to Menomena's talent, or perhaps indie-rock erudition, that they employed it for a limited purpose.

I'm also a little too amused by a line like "it's dark out, it's time I pick up my hustle." Deadpan deliveries of pop culture vernacular are pretty much amazing, if for no other reason than it suggests that the speaker is aware of how fleeting and ridiculous these phrases sound. To throw a phrase like that into a song that is, presumably, sung from the perspective of an apathetic and college educated member of the middle class is pretty much amazing. The dude isn't hustling for shit and thrown amidst lyrics about stumbling to the mirror and emotional strain, it sounds appropriately out of place.

Oh, right, and the slide on the church organ during the bridge is somehow the single greatest thing I've heard in a really long time.

Menomena - "Muscle'n Flo"