It's been five years and one new band (Broken Bells, his Danger Mouse collaboration) since James Mercer made a Shins album. After overhauling the group's lineup, he's finally made another, and this spangled, chin-up-kid anthem is the first taste. Mercer gets his reveries on – "When I was just nine years old/I swear that I dreamt/Your face on a football field" – amid multitracked vocals and prog-rock frippery, while guest Shin Janet Weiss pounds out a Phil Spector faux-tango with Keith Moon flourishes. It's pretty magnificent, and that ascending melody will trail you like a double-espresso buzz.

Listen to "Simple Song":

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“My President”

Young Jeezy teams up with Nas on this track, in which he compare his own success with the idea of an African-American winning the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2008 presidential election. "When I pulled up in my car, that s--- was unbelievable to people in my neighborhood because they were like, 'We grew up with him. How the hell did he accomplish this?'" he told Rolling Stone. "I feel like it was the same way with Obama. I grew up all this time, but I've never seen a black man this close to running this country."