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Spoiler Alert: As one inevitably approaches his fortieth or fiftieth listen to the opening cut on The Hush Now 's sophomore set -- because it is that good -- the revelation strikes that the pulsing flow of the lyrics to "Contrails" suggests Chuck D's in the greatest hip-hop song of all time, "Don't Believe The Hype" (" they can't come on and play me in prime time ..."). That tangent aside, vocals and keyboard tower over the other elements of "Contrails," and we wish someone had depressed the " Superchunk Guitars" button during the mixing session for that [...]