May 14 - Snakeheads

If you've never heard a picaresque song about people smugglers heading across country in a u-haul... well, now you have.

Like the best Mountain Goats songs, this one is a cheerful knife to the heart, with a combination of tenderness and cruelty. The result is a gentle portrait of ungentle people, exactly on the knife edge between being unsettlingly human about people involved in human trafficking, and unflinching in its acceptance of the reality that this means.

Good music makes you think. Which doesn't mean the thoughts are going to be nice.