The Weekly Top Four(-ty)

This week it's a bit of an eclectic mix. Last weekend was so cold I found myself listening to reggae to warm up. The Trojan Box Set: Tighten Up was the perfect answer. Three discs of the stuff served up warm, the bass thumpin'. Squarepusher's Ultravisitor starts off beautiful, melding melodic synths with beats that jump in and out, building his songs slowly into long meditations. Somewhere in the middle it gets a little too busy and noisy, but then mellows out for the end. There's an odd mix of the midieval that seems to pop out now and again. Movietone's Blossom Filled Streets is a folky bit of dream pop that floats by on Kate White's voice. And Latyrx's The Album is the underground hip hop album that marries DJ Shadow and Cheif Xcel with Lateef and Lyrics Born. The title song, with the dual channel raps, is a neat bit of production.     Top singles include Enrique Igelsias's "Don't Turn Off the Lights" and "Escape," The Flaming Lips' "Flight Test," Squarepusher's "Iambic 9 Poetry," and the Notwist's "Consequence."