If You Think My Taste in Music Is Abrasive and Pretentious...

... I'm generally quite happy to agree. However here's something that might be pretentious--it is "foreign," after all--but it's not abrasive. Souad Massi is an Algerian singer who relocated to Paris in 1999 after receiving death threats for playing pop music with a political edge. Her album Deb has been on my playlist recently; it's not exactly challenging stuff, musically speaking, but it's nice. Here's a track entitled "Yemma." As always, if you like the music, support the artist by purchasing a legal copy of their work (click here).