A somewhat haphazard threesome of songs that've recently had me wondering just where I mislaid my Punk roots and started to enjoy listening to such radio-friendly fare as this.
Fall Out Boy - A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More “Touch Me”
The third single off of “From Under The Cork Tree”,
Sixteen Candles is less dancefloor anthemic than
Sugar, We're Going Down and more jittery stop-start timing than
Dance, Dance. It's still very much more of the same from FOB and, love them or hate them, the first guitar rush then slow to start vocals here will have kids screaming in excitement as they rush to the dancefloor no matter how cliched me and anyone else over the age of twenty recognise it as.
No Bizzi - Come Home
A reworking of Joan Armatrading's “
Woncha Come on Home” this is simply sublime and beautifully bittersweet acoustic hip-hop. There is a horribly constructed PR backstory attached here though but I really don't care if this No Bizzi character is Reggie Yates or Lord Lucan or whoever else, the track's production manages to improve on the original vocal mix and No Bizzi's own contribution sits incredibly well alongside. Do everything you can to search out this track now before it's ruined by being cool to like.
Razorlight - In The Morning
First glimpse of what to expect from their forthcoming 2nd album, Razorlight continue to be Razorlight but slightly better than the dullest generic indie-rock I remember the first album as being. I actually like the jangly guitars and hook lines in this track but I fear that may just be because I reckon it reminds me of The Alarm back in the late eighties. I just wish it had as much balls as that.
Sixteen Candles and
In The Morning are released Monday 3rd July.
www.falloutboyrock.com www.razorlightmusic.com
No Bizzi is currently unsigned after completing a debut EP with no release schedule available.
www.myspace.com/nobizzi
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