Elle S'appelle 'Little Flame'
The end of the month sees the release of the Moshi Moshi Singles Club compilation. It's a refreshingly good record and it's giving me a proper headache. See, I'm reviewing it and my brief was to talk about the label, about why they're special, and then focus on a couple of the tracks. On the face of it, not much of a problem.
The problem is, of the 14 tracks, perhaps four (a real turkey from Kate Nash included) aren't so hot. The rest are un-put-downable. So I'm trying to choose two from Lykee Li (Swedish, cute, etc), Slow Club (junior Beautiful South), Pacific! (10cc!), The Wave Pictures (Richman meets Orange Juice/Velvets), Elle S'appelle (Altered Images), Friendly Fires (PSB)... oh, and Team Water Polo (The Killers got good) and Late of the Pier (early Human League)... I paraphrase of course, jus' saving better lines for the review. Ahem.
What's there not to like?
Oh, and I've just put my headphones back on to hear Matt and Kim's "Silver Tiles" which I didn't like on Saturday, but it's sounding pretty damn good tonight... and it also appears I have neglected the very decent Breakbot, who sound like Justice doing wall of sound (or the other way round)...
Decisions decisions. I can't even decide on a track to go here... what's it to be? The old iTunes is on shuffle so I'll post the next track up...
Reviewing music isn't as easy as it used to be. Either that, or music has got a whole, whole lot better in the last five years.
More hear...
- Huzzah, someone finally with their own website. Here.
- And MySpace, natch. And another Myspace for the Singles Club.
- And there's a free Moshi Moshi CD on the cover of this month's Artrocker. There is.
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