Track of the Week: Three N'One - Soul Freak
I was down in D's basement recently while he was playing some records that hadn't seen the light of day for quite some time, and remembered why I love this track so very, very much. It never got played out a lot, which saved it from the - how to put it delicately? - cheesetastic fate of so much melodic trance. But it remains an awesomely well constructed, emotionally huge track, just gorgeous to lose yourself in and impossible to listen to without a thrill going up your spine.

Later, D put on the new Death Cab for Cutie album. Like Sharam Jey, Benjamin Gibbard knows how to write melodies that start off deceptively simple then proceed to unfold while simultaneously expanding, resonating the whole time. These guys couldn't do a better job on your limbic system if they had diplomas in neuroscience and a handful of electrodes in their back pockets. Kudos.