It's the first week of summer and the Cool Kids have teamed up with Mayer Hawthorne to give us the seasons first big jam, "Swimsuits". We all know the Cool Kids as Chicago's proudest sons since Lupe. But it's Hawthorne that gets me. Some may know him as DJ Haircut - but when he showed up at the Stones Throw Records office with an album steeped in Motown goodness, everything changed. Since then, he's stayed on the road with his band (The County) and is dropping guests hooks like this one left and right. His debut, Strange Arrangement, by all accounts should have been dismissed as a goof. But Hawthorne's efforts to make it a genuine collection of motor-city era love tunes allowed it to get over. I still put it on about once a month.
Dig.