Spoonfed Singles Club with Englebert Humperdink, Willy Moon and Temper Trap
02 May, 2012
by: Music Team
New releases - 7th May
Willy Moon - Yeah Yeah
Island
FREE MUSIC MONDAY: Willy Moon - Yeah Yeah by Annie Mac Presents
Weird this - in the way that fresh lemonade with mint is at first, weird - until you realise it's awesome.
When it starts, with a James Brown style 'ow!', it could be an old rock n roll or funk tune. Then come the hip hop busts and overtures of bumping rudeness, but the jazzy guitar bursts persist....until in comes the sample from Wu Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin Ta... and it's gangsta all over again, rolled over in soul and rockabilly old school. Energetic and frrrrrrresh. 4/5
Fanzine – LA
Best Fit Recordings
L.A. by Fanzine
The front cover of this new single from Fanzine has a picture of a bloke lying on a lilo sipping a martini, which is pretty apt really. A big friendly hug encased in reverb, poppy guitar hooks and sweetly-voiced harmonies, it feels like your lying adrift in a sea of sound, gently dozing in the sun.
Honestly, it’s like a 3 minute holiday. 4/5
Englebert Humperdinck – Love Will Set You Free
Universal/Epic
That cannot be his real hair! The man is 76 years-old and he can still muster a quiff? Well, that follicle superiority is sure serve us well at Eurovision even if we are sending him head first into the land of pop sass with a dreary, slow melody that would be more at home in a Disney movie that features a pirate's talking dog dying valiantly after saving his master.
It's all pretty wholesome and there's not a whiff of double-denim or cabin crew shenanigans in sight, shame that. 3/5
Au Palais – Some Velvet Morning
Sounds of Sweet Nothing
Some Velvet Morning by AU PALAIS
I'm not a big fan of cover versions anyway, but why, why oh why would you cover Some Velvet Morning? Yeh they've switched the male and female vocals around. Deep man. They've also turned one of the greatest songs ever written into something a Ukrainian Depeche Mode tribute band might do.
It takes all the organic beauty of the original and sticks it on a 50 degree wash in the hipster machine. The lyrics lose all feeling and meaning - the haunting beauty of the original just doesn't work with deadpan delivery and goth-pop synths. Let this be a lesson to everyone out there – some songs are best left alone. 1/5
Temper Trap – Need Your Love
Infectious
Need Your Love by The Temper Trap
Nice work Temper Trap! You’ve managed to release the perfect ‘goal of the season’ montage competition just in time for the end of the actual season.
Expect this gold plated turd of an electro song to be plastered over clips of Van Persie grimacing, Peter Crouch lobbing the keeper from the half way line and Drogba spiting on Sky Sports any day soon. Can’t wait! 0/5
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