Jay Reatard’s music has gotten progressively more poppy over the years since the fierce Blood Visions…and I don’t particularly mind. This new one from his upcoming and first official Matador LP is a re-recording of a previous single, now with a new poppy sheen. Does it work? It gets my head noddin’, so yes.

{MP3} Jay Reatard – “Wounded”

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Watch Me Fall is due out on Matador on 8/18.