Blog: PopMatters

We've unveiled our 50 best singles of the year , but that's not really a lot of songs. So, here are others bubbling just under that 50 mark. While the R. Kelly/Jay-Z collaboration failed miserably, the vinyl-only "Moth/Wolf Cub" single showed that bizarre genre crossovers could work. Four Tet was one of the primary founders of folktronica and Burial was one of the names that made dubstep the household name it now is. Locked in a room together, their sounds combined in a breathtaking fashion. Burial's patient beats roll on smoothly under Four Tet's ethereal cut-up loops. "Moth" [...]