Spoonfed Music
Film taste: Ones with like totally rad soundtracks
Music taste: Only really cool and weird shit that you've never heard of. And Morrissey.
Hangout: Some warehouse in Stokey or somewhere.
Most likes (about London): Music
Least likes: Silence
Me in 10 words: A bunch of judgmental music nerds
Reviews
artist Dizzee Rascal
Wednesday, 20 August
*Single of the Week*
Dizzee Rascal - Dance Wiv Me
XL
It's hard not to like Dizzee Rascal. He's got this 'butter wouldn't melt' boy next door look about him. Then again, I am in the right demographic to get his music, falling into the 'skinny middle-class white guy' percentile.
Anyway, this track is weird. It's like Dizzee rapping over Royksopp's 'Eple'with lyrics that are a little gangsta but still dead friendly. It's got Calvin Harris on it, but still manages to be really fun in an underage disco sort of way. DH
Dizzee Rascal - Dance Wiv Me
XL
It's hard not to like Dizzee Rascal. He's got this 'butter wouldn't melt' boy next door look about him. Then again, I am in the right demographic to get his music, falling into the 'skinny middle-class white guy' percentile.
Anyway, this track is weird. It's like Dizzee rapping over Royksopp's 'Eple'with lyrics that are a little gangsta but still dead friendly. It's got Calvin Harris on it, but still manages to be really fun in an underage disco sort of way. DH
artist Dan le Sac v. Scroobius Pip
Wednesday, 20 August
*Single of the Week*
Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip - Letter From God To Man
Sunday Best
Absolutely inspired this - It features the voice of God, leveling with man in Pip's trademark cockney rhyme. The address begins in a touchingly stuttering way: 'Hey there, how's it going? Long time no... see', and goes on, astutely and matter-of-factly parading man's successes and failures.
The fervent, looped 'Planet Telex' riff builds as Pip's rhyme gets faster and more furious, until the blow dealt by the final line leads to the resolution of Thom Yorke's spine-tingling vocal; 'Everything is... broken.' Completely brilliant. LC
Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip - Letter From God To Man
Sunday Best
Absolutely inspired this - It features the voice of God, leveling with man in Pip's trademark cockney rhyme. The address begins in a touchingly stuttering way: 'Hey there, how's it going? Long time no... see', and goes on, astutely and matter-of-factly parading man's successes and failures.
The fervent, looped 'Planet Telex' riff builds as Pip's rhyme gets faster and more furious, until the blow dealt by the final line leads to the resolution of Thom Yorke's spine-tingling vocal; 'Everything is... broken.' Completely brilliant. LC
artist The Verve
Wednesday, 20 August
*Single of the Week*
The Verve - Love Is Noise
Parlophone
Ten years on from 'Sonnet', The Verve return with the comeback single that closed this year's Glastonbury. Pitching up somewhere between the psych-rock of 'A Northern Soul' and the orchestral bombast of 'Urban Hymns', any hangover from Richard Ashcroft's insipid solo ventures is (thankfully) conspicuous by its absence.
It's basically the band's 'Best Of', distilled into four minutes - Richie even throws in some more William Blake poetry for good measure. A welcome return for one of the most important British bands of the '90s. MF
The Verve - Love Is Noise
Parlophone
Ten years on from 'Sonnet', The Verve return with the comeback single that closed this year's Glastonbury. Pitching up somewhere between the psych-rock of 'A Northern Soul' and the orchestral bombast of 'Urban Hymns', any hangover from Richard Ashcroft's insipid solo ventures is (thankfully) conspicuous by its absence.
It's basically the band's 'Best Of', distilled into four minutes - Richie even throws in some more William Blake poetry for good measure. A welcome return for one of the most important British bands of the '90s. MF
artist Jamie Lidell
Wednesday, 20 August
*Single of the Week*
Jamie Lidell - Another Day
Warp
Like a more obvious Leila, the fun of listening to Jamie Lidell used to be working out why anyone would mix Motown vocals with hardcore sound processing. And then on 'Multiply' he did a straight-up crooner turn, but with some interesting, modern production.
Now he's decided that really, he was the white reincarnation of Al Green all along. The fact Green's still alive tells you that's not true, but if Lidell reckons he's made a slice of sunshine soul good enough for any time in the last 40 years, then he's dead right. RH
Jamie Lidell - Another Day
Warp
Like a more obvious Leila, the fun of listening to Jamie Lidell used to be working out why anyone would mix Motown vocals with hardcore sound processing. And then on 'Multiply' he did a straight-up crooner turn, but with some interesting, modern production.
Now he's decided that really, he was the white reincarnation of Al Green all along. The fact Green's still alive tells you that's not true, but if Lidell reckons he's made a slice of sunshine soul good enough for any time in the last 40 years, then he's dead right. RH
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