I tend to buy new music in bunches. I suppose that’s because studios tend to time releases around particular periods, though apart from the holidays I’m not sure how that makes much sense.

At any rate, I’ve purchased five albums in the past week, a nice round number for SOTD purposes. I’ll feature one track from each this week.

In truth my wife purchased today’s album, Fitz & the Tantrums’ 2010 debut, though I pulled the trigger on Amazon. She heard one of their songs in a store and identified them via Shazam (a brilliant invention).

She’s entirely unlike me when it comes to buying new music. I study and analyze and sample and debate before buying something from a new artist. She hears half of a song in an Ann Taylor dressing room and she’s all in.

In fairness, I buy a lot more music than she does so it’s rare that she is moved in that way. And when she is, she usually turns out to be right.

I haven’t heard this album in its entirety (yet), nor have I heard the other Fitz & the Tantrums album we bought, which I will feature later this week. But based on this song alone, I love these guys and the whole neo-soul thing they’ve got going.