Wrong Direction

Michaelangelo Matos

Downloads of the Week

ONE DIRECTION

"Best Song Ever"

★ 1/2

BRITAIN'S biggest boy band rolls out this song from their new biopic, "This Is Us," out next month — and an upcoming album — and it sounds ready to be one of the summer's most overbearing hits. The chorus' forced "fun" ("Oh-OH-oh! Yeah-YEAH-yeah!") makes the Spice Girls sound like Billie Holiday. Points for ripping off The Who's "Baba O'Riley" on the opening few seconds, though.

KINGS OF LEON

"Supersoaker"

★★

THE Southern rockers preview September's "Mechanical Bull" with something brighter than usual — very Beach Boys, rather than their usual '70s crunch. Decent chorus, too: "I don't mind/Sentimental girls sometimes." But once Caleb Followill calls himself "a supersoaker, red, white and blue all the way," it's hard to take him seriously.

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Despite its title, One Direction's latest single is decidedly not the "Best Song Ever."

SELENA GOMEZ

"Slow Down"

★★

ON this cut from "Stars Dance" — her first real album following years of Disney fame — Gomez goes for squeaky-bright dance music, full of sonic tricks and with a liquid rhythm. The effects are grabby, as when the syllables of the title are stre-e-e-tched out. But they earn more attention than the singer.

MARC ANTHONY

"Vivir Mi Vida"

★★★

THE first single from the Latin pop icon's new salsa album, "3.0," is bold and stately, with Anthony's 44-year-old pipes still in startling form. That it's a cover of Algerian singer Khaled in a different style shows how wide Anthony's range is.

EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS

"Better Days"

★★ 1/2

THE 10-piece LA rock troupe led by Alex Ebert (there's no Edward Sharpe in the band) has never sounded as purely paisley-'60s as they do in the lead-off from their third, self-titled album. The pitter-patting drums and chamber-orchestration are spot-on, even if the song itself remains dippy.

MOBY Feat. COLD SPECKS

"A Case for Shame"

★★ 1/2

THIS preview of electronic-dance star Moby's next album, out in October, sounds like much of his work since 1999's mega-selling "Play" — down-tempo, melodic, a little inert. But the Canadian Goth-soul singer Cold Specks gives it her all, and he responds with his lushest track in a while.

WEEKEND

"Mirror"

★ 1/2

The Brooklyn-via-San Francisco rock trio Weekend knows one trick — sound as much as possible like trebly, echoey English bands like Echo and the Bunnymen. The first single from Weekend's second album, "Jinx," does this to a T; they just don't write a particularly memorable song to go along with the sound.

F - - K BUTTONS

"The Red Wing"

★★ 1/2

ENGLISH instrumental duo F - - k Buttons play experimental rock that touches on noise, jazz, psychedelic music and electronic-dance, without quite fitting into any of those categories. Basically, if you like the Flaming Lips when they get trippy — but not too trippy — this slithering jam should suit you fine.

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