Spoonfed Singles Club with Billy Bragg, The Postal Service and Rhianna
14 February, 2013
by: Music Team
The Postal Service delivers another classic and Rhianna's weepy falls flat:
The Postal Service - A Tattered Line of String
Sub Pop
The Postal Service - "Tattered Line Of String" (unreleased) by Marco Collins
Alright! The Belle and Sebastian of synth pop are back! Despite being away for eight, long years The Postal Service are still those love shy guys at the disco, forlornly sipping their pina coladas while some tough guy is making out with the girl they fancy.
‘A Tattered Line of String’ catches them in full flow, and while it’s not going to win any awards for originality, it still manages to walk the tightrope between bubblegum pop and sick-in-a-bucket tweeness with aplomb. 4.5/5
DH
Man Like Me - Sleaze
Beats/Cartoon Records
Parts of this song sound like cockerny geezah Danny Dyer doing his best attempt at a Robert Palmer impression with a mouth full of Camembert and other parts sound like a warmed over Calvin Harris b-side.
Somehow these two elements work well enough together to make what is actually quite a nice bit of idiosyncratic pop. I'd tap my foot if I heard this being played in Topman. 3/5
CO
Billy Bragg - No One Knows Nothing Anymore
Cooking Vinyl
Billy Bragg doing a Coldplay? Seriously. He's not holding a guitar or anything in this video. As you can probably tell from the title, No One Knows Anything Anymore is a shrug wrapped in a meh, stuck in a traffic jam. Gone are the rousing lyrics, the hope for future generation, instead Bragg wants to know “what if there's nothing?”.
If you have a Sunday lie-in to ponder this, go for it. But my mid-week mornings are for straight up gangster rap. 2/5
NK
The Family Rain - Carnival
Bigger Splash
Carnival [FREE DOWNLOAD] by THEFAMILYRAIN
Each member of this band of brothers looks like a slightly different version of Asthon Kutcher if he were in a film like Castaway or something.
That's the most interesting and positive thing there is to say about this song. It's dull, repetitive and the singer's attempt at a bluesy drawl borders on embarrassing, you'd have to have a subscription to Q Magazine to even begin to like something like this. 1/5
CO
Rhianna ft Mikky Ekko - Stay
Def Jam
Stay f/ Mikky Ekko (Preview) by Rihanna
Hooray for Hollywood. A solemn piano note plays, Rihanna does her best vulnerable look at the camera, sings a few words that I've forgotten already and bosh - not only do you have a million seller, but you've got a new background tune for the X-Factor sob stories next year (royalties galore).
Together with reality TV and Adele/Rihanna we've created a generation who know nothing else other than to be comically melodramatic over the most trifling of life's problems, like what to call your 11th baby now the girl next door's called her's Tulisa. Well done Britain, well done America. 0/5
TA
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