AUDACITY OF HUGE

Simian Mobile Disco

I’m trying to be nice here, but I fear that’s not how it’s going to read. Stuff it, I’ll say it anyway. This sounds like Simian Mobile Disco were trying to reimagine Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire in the style of Calvin Harris. Actually, that seems even ruder in print than it did in my head, but it really is the best way I can think of to describe this song. You can dance to it if you like, but while you’re doing that the singer’s naming all sorts of famous people and gadgets that he’s apparently got, ranging from Bill Murray through to the Sultan of Brunei, Mama Cass, DAT players (kids, ask your parents) and tennis kits dipped in honey... which is probably not the ideal way to play the game, but as I don’t play tennis I’m in no position to say for definite. Mental, I’m sure you’ll agree, but not as mental as the way the chorus is sung. When the vocals for the chorus were recorded, there must’ve been a sizeable cash prize for the most ridiculous sounding rendition and I’m guessing the prize was shared. Despite all that though, this is actually not bad. Funny how things work out, innit?

REMEDY

Little Boots

Kylie Minogue, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, La Roux, Cascada, the Saturdays, Girls Aloud, the Sugababes and Girls Can’t Catch (of whom we'll probably hear more from later) amongst others - all of those people will probably be kicking themselves for not writing this song before Little Boots, and do you know why? Because this has either got Career-Building-Number-One-Hit or Guaranteed-Career-Rescuing-Smash-Hit written all over it, depending on who would’ve picked it up, that’s why. This is pop music that’s been filtered through mountain springs, coffee makers and great big lumps of charcoal right up to the point where it’s 100% pure. Sometimes you get proper pop songs that are utterly devoid of personality and that’s why they’re rubbish, but not with this one. This song is miles away from the sound of her previous single, which is probably her way of saying "Didn’t like New In Town? Well, that’s not all I do, so stick this in your pipe and smoke it." Basically, what it comes down to is this - you know when you achieve something and think to yourself, "I’ve absolutely nailed it, there’s no way that could’ve gone better?" Well, Little Boots has nailed it here.