The Modern – Industry
I saw this band live a few months ago in a tiny venue in Stratford-Upon-Avon and I never did review it here as I planned to, but I think it’s pretty certain that it wasn’t one of the band’s favourite gigs ever, mainly because there were only about 20 people watching and I would say about 5 of them had a clue who they were, one of whom was a lady who seemed to have taken style tips from Sesame Street. I put the lead singer’s seemingly rather negative attitude down to the unresponsive crowd, but actually watching their new video it seems she just is grumpy. It kind of works, she certainly has attitude and you know she won’t be doing anything she doesn’t want to in her ascencion to the top of the pops, but it would be nice if she smiled a bit. As for the song, of course it’s excellent and I really hope it does as well as it deserves to – it’s been suggested that Dear Eskiimo could be the UK’s answer to the Scissor Sisters, but I actually think this lot have much more chance.
95% Poptastic!
The Delays – Valentine
I was really looking forward to hearing the new Delays single because I’d heard that they were going in a more electro direction and I LOVED their last single, Lost In A Melody, which was proper electro-pop-rock aceness. However, I am a bit disappointed with Valentine. It’s not bad exactly, but it’s nothing on Lost In A Melody.
67% Poptastic!
Wigwam – Wigwam
As followers of Popjustice will know, Wigwam is a new group combining fabulous 90s pop star Betty Boo (also known as Alison Clarkson, writer for Xenomania) and some bloke out of Blur, and this is their self-titled debut single. I had high expectations and luckily they have been totally fulfilled – this is ACE! I’m not sure how likely it is to be successful but with both members already being well-known to some extent at least they will get some publicity. Let’s just hope they don’t plan to release in Norway, as their Eurovision entry last year, as I’m sure you’ll remember, were a glam-rock band called Wigwam.
78% Poptastic!
El Presidente – Turn This Thing Around
I couldn’t even bear to listen to any of this group’s previous releases, yet somehow this single is absolutely brilliant! Why it wasn’t their first single I have no idea because it was on their first album so it easily could have been. They clearly have no taste.
75% Poptastic!
Craig David – Boring Song
I can’t remember the title of Craig’s new single but I do remember that it is very boring and embarrassingly soppy. Hopefully he’ll do another interview on Popworld while clearly being quite drunk and crack some jokes which don’t even make sense, as that would make up for this rubbishness in pure comedy value.
23% Poptastic!