Tinie Tempah - Disc-Overy (Capital; 2011)

Disco lights beneath the choir on the dance floor brightens every chess move of the mating ritual. 

Danger Mouse/Daniel Luppi - Rome (Capitol; 2011)

Behind alleys, we are the shadows dripping from mugshots among the bricks.

Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two (2011)

Riffs rake us to the early days of trunks with melting vinyl and the warm but sordid breeze stuck on 42nd Street.