In spite of Valentine’s Day, no-one’s been getting particularly lovey-dovey this week. Miserable sods. Still, I guess, the music’s been good enough to make up for it.
THE WORST:
‘Friend Zone’ –
Thundercat
‘I’d rather play
Mortal Kombat anyway…’ The funky singer-bassist wasn’t feeling the romantic
Valentine’s Day vibes this week, instead using his lovably warped sense of
humour to create a fiercely fed-up retaliation anthem to being friendzoned. The
whole track frankly ends too quickly, but then again I could listen to those
vibrant synth arpeggios all day and still be left wit blue balls. Give me this Thundercat album MY BODY IS READY
‘I’m Not Your Girl’ –
Estrons
Is no-one feeling the love this week? This new punkish belter
of a track from indie rockers Estrons is all about slamming the door on an unwanted
ex-lover. It's mean rock bitch music for slashing your previous partner’s tyres
to (not that I condone such behaviour - torching their vehicle's more effective). That section from 2:22 makes me want punch someone.
‘A Clown Drools’ - Taupe
Jazz/punk/noise collective Taupe come through with this
cranium-curdler of a track ‘A Clown Drools’ from their new album Fill Up Your Lungs And Bellow. Loopy
alto sax skitters over dissonant guitars and frantic percussion, offering
enough melody to keep you sane but also intermittently throwing you down the
rabbit hole so that you don’t get too comfortable. They’re Behold… The Arctopus
turned bebop. Coincidentally, I must add, the sax player was a year above me in
primary school!
‘Tired as Fuck’ – The
Staves
Smoking in a music video and needlessly sweary lyrics usually
give off an obnoxious I’m-trying-to-be-edgy-vibe – which is certainly the case
here – but I’m willing to forgive these girls simply for the fact that these
are some the most celestial vocal harmonies I’ve heard in a long while.
THE WORST:
‘Beauty and the Beast’
– Ariana Grande & John Legend
Yuk, it sounds like a Disney song. Oh wait…