Spoonfed Singles Club with Haim, Padded Cell and Stereophonics
06 December, 2012
by: Music Team
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Padded Cell – Guardians of the Night
Different Recordings
Brilliant weirdo-pop track from London’s disco old guard Richard Sen and Neil Higgins.
The sax, drums, bass and percussion give this some serious depth - live instrumentation is far too scarce on dancefloors these days. The distracting tone of the vocals knock half a point off, otherwise this is almost as perfect as a modern leftfield disco track gets. 4.5/5
TA
Haim – Don't Save Me
Polydor
This song makes me want to start a 4 Non-Blondes tribute band. Fantastically, Haim definitely smell a bit like Talking Heads with this perfect '80s-feeling, unpolished, pop/rock love anthem. The female Hanson they're definitely not. Although from the back, who knows? 4/5
NK
Toro Y Moi – So Many Details
Carpark
A pretty standard mid-pace chillwave number this one, which kind of clocks in at Georgio Moreoder speed and offers almost next to nothing in the way of hooks, bass-lines or weird psychedelic bits.
Sorry Toro Y Moi, but the best thing I can say about this is that’s it’s basically a shrug rendered in glorious electro pop. 2.5/5
DH
Django Django – Life's a Beach
Because Music
It's boppy, it's summery and there's a reference to being on a beach: I've heard this song a million different times this year from a million different support bands at places like The Shacklwell and Power Lunches, sometimes twice or more in one night.
It's by no means a bad song, but to me there's nothing about it that warrants a second listen. Metaphorically speaking, it's a meal I've been force-fed so many times that even the faintest aroma of it makes me dry heave. 2/5
CO
Stereophonics – In A Moment
EMI
You know what, everything considered this isn't actually too bad a song. I've always thought Kelly Jones had one of the least charismatic voices in rock music, but he's trying so hard to sound like he has a personality on this track it's difficult not to be surprised and appreciative of the effort. Beyond that, there's not much to say in this song's favour.
It'll sound inoffensive enough wedged between Coldplay and Mumford and Sons on the Radio 1 mid-day playlist. 2/5
CO
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