#4. The Struts - Hands On Me
Title: Hands On Me
Artist: The Struts
Album: Pretty Vicious
Even though they had an ascendant rise in 2021, reaching the #2 spot with "Another Hit Of Showmanship", I didn't expect a whole lot from the new album from The Struts, especially after hearing the lead single "Too Good At Raising Hell". I was barely able to make it through their last album, and two tracks into Pretty Vicious I wasn't feeling too much of a rise. Then the album hits a four song juggernaut run with "I Won't Run", "Hands On Me", "Do What You Want" and "Rockstar".
It is "Hands On Me" that eventually climbed this year's Countdown, back into the top 5 and joining an exclusive company of bands who have reached that high more than once (Owl City, Future Islands, The Broken Relics, Purity Ring, and Forever Unknown). "Hands On Me" is the emotional climax of the record, telling the age-old tale of lost love and the yearning for it to return.
Favorite line: "The only way I know how long that you've been gone, is how the mold on all the dishes seems to grow"
Previous five #4s:
2023: Gable Price and Friends - I Don't Wanna Live Like This
2022: Truslow - Abbey Dear
2021: A Tiger Made of Lightning - Little Birds
2020: Forever Unknown - Bury Me
2019: VHS Collection - Sign
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