It’s been a lively, largely enthusiastic sort of week on the blog, so why not wind down for the music with some loungey Scandinavian indiepop. Although, with this single, it almost seems unfair to continue to tar Sarah Assbring with the indiepop brush.
It’s a step up from previous outings, which while carrying undeniable emotional heft, were uneasy listening at best. There’s a certain unwelcome-round-these-parts defensiveness to an album titled Love is not Pop (why not?), but for those moments when it definitely isn’t, you could do a lot worse than this seriously classy bit of bar-room musico-contemplation.
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Brilliant, dirty power-pop formed from the ashes of Be Your Own Pet. Now BYOP were a group I could never really get on with, but this is a much simpler, and indeed funner, sort of fun. Kind of like a scuzzier, less contrived Raveonettes, Naked With You could have been made at any point in the last fifty years, but somehow manages to sound fresh. Excellent, sexy then silly blue-screen video to accompany. Worth a spin.
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This one didn’t really grab me at first. I’m not particularly fussed about Beth Ditto, who adds her distinctive but rather samey vocals to this mid-paced electro number. It’s got a certain charm though, that works its way through on multiple listens. Background music-y, but not in a bad way? Really.
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So, there we all were, thinking we’d had enough of Lady Gaga for 2009. There’s that brilliant Kid Sister single out there that thoroughly out-Gagas 2009 Gaga. Enough already. No need. And then this arrives. Riding a massive glittery phallus from the future.
It’s hard to remember the last time a single simultaneously made you go ‘you WHAT?’ and ‘oh god YES!’ in the same breath. In fairness it was probably another, lesser, Gaga track. But this one steps it all up by a factor of X. It’s utter insanity. The chanted nonsense that’s a smidge away from irritation but instead falls firmly on the side of brilliance; the mentalist bathHAUS antics of the video; the way she makes ‘love love love’ sound like ‘blah blah blah’; and pretty much everything else about this rather excellent five minutes of gibberish.
I quite like this one.
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A strong contender for my single of the year, Melisa Young’s brilliant electro-pop fist-in-the-air banger should rightfully be her big UK crossover track. If the record label ever gets around to releasing it…
It’s taken long enough to get the video together. Worth it? Maybe. Some nice painty-video trickery going on but, in the same way Little Boots’ New In Town vid missed the point of the spangliness of her endeavour, Right Hand Hi’s visuals are a bit too dark and grimey for their own good.
Anyway, one listen and I guarantee it’ll be stuck in your head for the rest of the week. You can get a couple of decent remixes for the princely sum of NOWT over at RCRDLBL, along with a whole bunch of other Kid Sister treats. Get thee there now.
The video, as ever, is after the click…
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