Spoonfed Singles Club with Tame Impala, GreatWaves and Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Spoonfed Singles Club with Tame Impala, GreatWaves and Red Hot Chilli Peppers

06 September, 2012
by: Music Team

Tame Impala ride the cosmos, GreatWaves peer through the haze and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers are instantly forgettable.

Tame Impala – Elephant
Modular

Elephant by Tame Impala

When written down Tame Impala’s new one ‘Elephant’ shouldn’t work at all. With verses that sound like a mess of Blockbuster-style glam rock and Stone Roses-esque vocals and containing a 2 minute psych/space rock wig out that seems ripped straight from a King Crimson record, it should be one unholy mess, but somehow amongst all the insanity an absolute belter of a song has appeared.

Kind of reminding me of ELO without being mega cheesy, I’m not ashamed to say that I absolutely love this song. 4.5/5
DH

GreatWaves - The Shore
Sways

The Shore by G R E A T W A V E S

The key to being a proper Mancunian is to act like you don’t care but actually be really good at stuff (see Sean Ryder, Ian Brown, Paul Scholes). GreatWaves know this, which is why the duo’s latest offering ‘The Shore’ is a hazy wave of sub-focused shoegaze, which talks about being drunk in the first 10 seconds with a poetic nonchalance which could only have been born in the North West. 4/5
TA

Ringo Deatrhstarr – Rip
Club AC30

Ringo Deathstarr - Rip by charmfactory

I met Ringo Deathstarr last year, and I have to say I wasn’t expecting them to make a song like this. Starting out all nice and Cocteau Twins, it progressively gets gnarlier and gnarlier until by the end the singer’s ethereal voice appears to floating over a Kyuss song. And they seemed like such nice people too.  4/5
DH

White Rabbits – I'm Not Me
TBD Records

White Rabbits - I'm not me by martinlubo

Wait, this isn't English (I'm 1 minute 39 seconds in. 1 minute 39 seconds!). White Rabbits have a Spanish version of this song - just FYI - but they still sound as much like Coconut Records as they do in their native tongue. 'I'm Not Me' is a'ight, it's nothing to write home about. It's a bit dark and scratchy and jars at all the right moments but they're no Spoon, that's for sure. 3/5
NK

Red Hot Chilli Peppers – Magpies on Fire
EMI


I am struck by how indistinct this is. Is that possible? Whatever. This song is boring which is inexcusable for a single. Use it to pad out your album and you get my go ahead. I'll listen to it happily cruising through many, many fields of much, much greenery as I peer out from one of many many greasy train windows while I sit between a haze of commuters but you want me to put down money for just this track? No dice bud. 2/5
NK

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Music Team