“Sweet Sour” by Band Of Skulls

The title track of Band of Skulls' 2012 album, "Sweet Sour" went out as a single just ahead of the record, and the English band wrote it together. Paste's Ryan Reed called it head-crushing and singled out its sludgy, Sabbath-style hammer-on riff, while the New Zealand Herald's Chris Schulz heard something slow-burning that still blisters, a band playing straight to its strengths.

iTunes made it Single of the Week in February 2012, alongside the album's release there; the band played it on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge and on Late Show with David Letterman, it reached 29 on the US Alternative Songs chart, and in 2013 it won an Independent Music Award for Best Rock/Hard Rock Song. The black-and-white video follows a boy who boots a boombox, then dances, lifts weights and boxes his way through a run-down cityscape.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.