5Rebbeccas Review
I am ratcheting down my enthusiasm for this new single -- is a new album due already?
The opening Oasis-by-way-of-Scotland hook and the various Libertines-isms are infectious!
Songs like this -- especially with a video like this -- have a weird sort of power; they make it seem, if for only 3 or 4 minutes, that things are right with the world -- the inner 18-year-old is alive again and the car stereo is blaring. Only the United Kingdom can produce music like this -- Scotland in this instance -- and this kind of single is the equivalent for me of American Top 40 AM radio in the 1970's.
The single is king and the perfect 4 minute pop song is the land's highest art form.
So what if the albums are never as good as the lead-off singles, eh?
The View - "5Rebbeccas"
apessimistisneverdisappointed.blogspot.com
The opening Oasis-by-way-of-Scotland hook and the various Libertines-isms are infectious!
Songs like this -- especially with a video like this -- have a weird sort of power; they make it seem, if for only 3 or 4 minutes, that things are right with the world -- the inner 18-year-old is alive again and the car stereo is blaring. Only the United Kingdom can produce music like this -- Scotland in this instance -- and this kind of single is the equivalent for me of American Top 40 AM radio in the 1970's.
The single is king and the perfect 4 minute pop song is the land's highest art form.
So what if the albums are never as good as the lead-off singles, eh?
The View - "5Rebbeccas"
apessimistisneverdisappointed.blogspot.com
posted by theviewareonfire at 9:58 am
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home