Spoonfed Singles Club with 2:54, Factory Floor and Timo Maas

Spoonfed Singles Club with 2:54, Factory Floor and Timo Maas

16 November, 2011
by: Music Team

New Releases - 21st November

2:54 - Scarlet
Fiction Records

2:54 - Scarlet by 2:54 Band

I couldn't love this song more. I've played it five times back to back and it shimmers ever more with rocking, frustrated beauty. It's got 90s tremors, do I hear Radiohead in there?

It's downbeat, which is cool. It's dark, I have a propensity for the dark. It smacks of lost love, of longing. Hair falling in the eyes of a brooding hottie across the room, cigarette smoke blue and curling. Leather jacket squeaking as they walk away - before looking back over their shoulder to meet your eye. Sizzling. 4.8/5
LC

Factory Floor - Two Different Ways
DFA

TWO DIFFERENT WAYS by Factory Floor

Our favourite krautrock revivalists Factory Floor spill their guts on DFA – and I for one love where they're going with this. It's got acid house intensity, and could've been recorded in a basement beneath the Hacienda while Blondie high on whatever you care to name sings monotone to you from a black and white tableau in the next room. And it just keeps on giving.

(None of that is true – it's called artistic license you pedant.) Get the picture? Good. 4/5
LC

Black Cherry - Modern Lover
Black Cherry Music

Modern Lover 2011 by blackcherrymusic

Dubbed 'best-looking band of the festival'  by Michael Eavis at Glasto last year, Black Cherry have a lot more to offer than pretty faces and cool threads. They fit in the indie-dance bracket but don't let that put you off.

These guys stand out from the overpopulated synth-pop crowd, mainly due to singer Megane Quashie's ear-catching vocals and some genuinely infectious riffs. They've also done a wicked cover of Pump Up The Jam that's worth checking out. New release Modern Lover is one of their best tracks yet, improving with every listen. 4/5
EM

Westlife – Lighthouse
Sony

I mean, what do you say? 'Lighthouse' is Westlife's last ever single, the lead track off the forthcoming Greatest Hits album, and it's been co-written by Take That's Gary Barlow.

And, apart form quite a fun bit with clashing drums near the end, it's exactly what you'd expect: bland, breathy, and full of overblown emotional nonsense about love and whatnot. Sample lyric: “You're the light in the dawn, you're the seat in the park, you're the lighthouse, the lighthouse that I need.” Predictably pointless. 1/5
TJ

Timo Maas ft Brian Molko - College 84
Rockets and Ponies

If there's one thing I'm not up for on a Wednesday morning it's Brian Molko churning out bad cliches and worse metaphors in my ears. “You're a sock without a shoe"? Really, Brian?

On top of Molko's nasal whinings about "charming ice cream" and "flaming locks of bread", whatever they are, I'm being bombarded with what I can only describe as bad noise. I really hope the 'long-wave radio broadcast played through a broken printer' sound isn't going to catch on in 2012. 1/5
TA

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Music Team