Spoonfed Singles Club with Lana Del Rey, Azealia Banks and NOFX

Spoonfed Singles Club with Lana Del Rey, Azealia Banks and NOFX

27 June, 2012
by: Music Team

New releases - 2nd July

NOFX – My Stepdad a cop and My Stepmom’s a Domme
Fat Wreck

Ah, NOFX, like the tides, The British ruling classes and the Daily Mail’s sense of moral outrage, whatever happens you remain the same. Well, apart from that time at SXSW  where Fat Mike dressed like a clown and sang loads of songs about being depressed and stuff, but the less said about that, the better.

In their latest opus, Mike and the gang juxtapose the work of police officers with dominatrices. Turns out there are a lot of similarities in the sort of things both groups get up to a day-to-day basis, but it does beg the question ‘do sadomasochists actively look for and seek out acts of police brutality?' Even if we never come up with the answer, this song is still 99% better than most modern ‘punk’ stuff. 4/5
DH

Scuba - NE1BUTU
Hotflush

Scuba - NE1BUTU by i-D online

If in any doubt that the '90s revival is in full swing, get your lugholes round this day-glo. break-laden pianothon from Scuba. But there's wearing your influences on your sleeve, then there's going down to your local tailors and having the exact same shirt made again.

There's nothing wrong with it, although it doesn't move me in the same way Krystal Klear's 'We're Wrong' does, but the questions remains - is there much point making carbon copies of an old sound? It's even got a mock 'yoof programme' video introduced by Normski. God forbid hipsters start making big beat records in a few years.  3/5
TA

Haim – Forever
National Anthem

Haim - Forever by SylMalcorps

I really can’t decide if Haim are meant to be a y’know ‘proper’ band or if they’re supposed to be an indie version of Destiny’s Child, designed to make a buck from sexually frustrated Drums fans and people who are way to into that movie Drive.

I’m even more confused after checking out ‘Forever’, it honestly sounds like a hybrid of Vampire Weekend and TLC, and has a video that feels like Mariah Carey promo with the production aesthetics of a No Age vid. It’s pretty good, but I still prefer to get my girl sass from Bleached. 3/5

Azealia Banks – Liquorice
Polydor

Azealia Banks is trying to induce a rave with this seductive, aggressive, painfully commercial fountain of mediocre which plays out as four minutes of matter-of-fact. It would have passed me by if it weren't for the pretty hilarious food metaphors that stand out in her mission to be your type and set you right etc in this fiery look at the links between skin colour and desirability.

She wants to know if “her hot fudge bitches can get with your vanilla friends” and she'd like you to “quote the cinnamon” if possible. She's interesting, but this single sounds awful. 2/5
NK

Lana del Ray - National Anthem
Polydor

Lana Del Rey - National Anthem by cristianosm

This is what overexposure does. I have just snored my way through Lana Del Ray's latest single which really is complete rubbish. Gone is the bluesy nectar of previous hits, here comes the saccharin pop people. To add to the litany, she has also made the mistake of jumping on the nationalistic bandwagon, declaring herself 'your' national anthem. This analogy is so tired darling, so so tired. She even tries a bit of rapping. Lana, please...

That's all I have to say on her quite frankly, but it did call to mind other 'National Anthem' tunes - notably Radiohead and Slipknot. Now that's what I'm talkin' about. 1/5
LC

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Music Team