It's not just you. Wordless electronic music makes everyone yawn. But Four Tet (Kieran Hebden) is the rare electrician who emphasizes melody over mood, so his tightly structured instrumental tracks aren't just drifting, they're moving.
Best Tracks: "Hands," "My Angel Rocks Back and Forth"
Epic times call for epic art, and nothing moved us more than The Return of the King. Other things we loved: Louis Vuitton, William Boyd and BBC's The Office And to the Atlanta group OutKast, we say "Stank you very much!"