The Year’s Best Music Moments: A Mix of Performances, Videos and Song Snippets That We Just Really Loved
Best Gibberish: The Chorus of SBTRKT’s “NEW DORP. NEW YORK”
In his guest role as vocalist on the Wonder Where We Land standout, Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koening makes little sense. His inverted, New York-associated phrasing ripples through SBTRKT’s darting beats, all silky and smooth: “Flag flappin’ in Manhattan/New dorp, New York/Gargoyles gargling oil/Peak of the empire, top of the rock.” Nonsense never sounded so eloquent. — LB