I read an hilarious review of the Scouting For Girls album over on Drowned In Sound today that riffs on about ‘Mondeo Pop’: described as ‘indie with a mortgage’.
The reviewer, Carrie Bradshaw Layfield lays into the band in a big way, and puts her many points across with an enthusiasm and flair which I just had to share with you guys.
Martin emailed me yesterday to let me know about Irish indie band, Dark Room Notes.
The Dublin based quartet are our first recommendation for 2008, and you should go and check out their MySpace (just as soon as you’ve read this page!). They’re really quite excellent.
Hot on the heels of She’s So Lovely, Scouting For Girls deliver yet another up-tempo indie anthem.
Let’s forget that those thick Northern accents drive me psychotic at the moment and concentrate on the song. It’s virtually identical to the last one. Except with a different chorus.
No matter what the subject matter, Scouting For Girls seem to play to an upbeat, cookie-cutter style that has nothing to do with the lyrics. Their unshakable belief in big dumb repetitive choruses is obvious in both Elvis Ain’t Dead and She’s So Lovely.
Toothpaste Kisses is our first encounter with The Maccabees here on Unreality Music.
It’s a very old-sounding, stripped down song. Apparently the normal Maccabees sound is a much more lively punk noise. Instead, Toothpaste Kisses is a simple track mostly focusing on singer Orlando Weeks’ vocals and an understated mostly acoustic backing.
After two very tongue in cheek singles, The Hoosiers give us a taste of their serious side with Worst Case Scenario, their new single.
Gone are the padded superhero suits of Goodbye Mr A or the monster mayhem of Worried About Ray. In their place, a darker band and a darker video than they’ve previously released. I don’t think frontman Irwin Sparkes pulls a face once!
There’s been a humorous bit of indirect smack talk between Thom Yorke from Radiohead and EMI’s Guy Hands over Hands’ claim that the band were making big money demands of the label.
According to Hands, the band were looking for a deal that would have cost EMI in the region of £10 million for:
Well, manky Manc and former Stone Rose Ian Brown has just released a cracking new single, Sister Rose. And this time, backing is provided by Sex Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook.
Sister Rose is musically a funky but quite sinister track. You’ve got dramatic strings, growling distorted guitar over a basic snare and bass drum pattern. This one is begging to be played at nosebleed volumes.
I’m not normally a fan of Brown’s work, but this is worthy of a listen, especially since I’ve been bemoaning the lack of decent music lately. Score one for decent music then!
The video for You Talk sees the Babyshambles crew ambling around a forest somewhere while Pete Doherty drawls on about loving to get leathered. No surprises there then.
Whenever I hear a new Babyshambles track, I find myself looking out for the musical genius that Doherty & Co allegedly bring along with them. The thing is, I can’t find it. All that’s on offer here is pretty decent indie pop.
So, aside from being mildly disappointed about the fact that Babyshambles aren’t turning the indie genre on its head, tracks like You Talk and Delivery are worthwhile tracks. Although not enough to convince me to buy Shotter’s Nation…
Only a matter of time before that infectious iPod song made it into the charts, and this week Feist’s 1 2 3 4 is in the top 10 on both sides of the Atlantic.
It’s not the first time major exposure in an advert has brought on chart success (bizarrely, Nick Kamen has been mentioned to me twice this week!).
Well well. All hail the nation’s most celebrated junkie - the ‘venerable’ Pete Doherty - has got his shit together for long enough to release a single with Babyshambles.
I have to admit to being one of those tabloid readers who scratches my head at every Doherty story and wonders if I’ve ever heard one of his songs. Well, now I have.
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