by 586 MEDIA
Gorillaz
Kids With Guns/El Mañana
Parlophone
Normally a double A-side single suggests one thing: neither tune is really capable of carrying a release on its own. But since when did Gorillaz conform to what we’ve come to expect from the music industry? Both halves of this single are blessed with the sort of skewed pop genius that Gorillaz clearly have oozing out of their strange, pixelated little pores. Kids With Guns, as its title would suggest, is darker than Anne Rice nibbling on a 70% cocoa chocolate bar at a Transylvanian street cafe. Its bass line manages to be both thunderous and elastic – no mean feat – and it ends with an utterly jarring burst of white noise. Most impressively of all, it evens finds time for Neneh Cherry to purr a few lines from Salt N Pepa’s Push It in deliciously lascivious fashion. El Mañana is more wistful, but its stuttering beat, acoustic guitars and mournful strings still create an eerily claustrophobic listening experience. Pushing the boundaries of mainstream pop is one thing; but doing so whilst resurrecting eighties hip-hop icons who’ve been AWOL from Planet Pop since 1996 is really quite special.
More juddering pop music from Shayne Ward, Jamie Foxx, Lorraine, The Randoms, King Furnace, Hard-Fi and Studio B after the jump…
Gorillaz
Kids With Guns/El Mañana
Parlophone
Normally a double A-side single suggests one thing: neither tune is really capable of carrying a release on its own. But since when did Gorillaz conform to what we’ve come to expect from the music industry? Both halves of this single are blessed with the sort of skewed pop genius that Gorillaz clearly have oozing out of their strange, pixelated little pores. Kids With Guns, as its title would suggest, is darker than Anne Rice nibbling on a 70% cocoa chocolate bar at a Transylvanian street cafe. Its bass line manages to be both thunderous and elastic - no mean feat - and it ends with an utterly jarring burst of white noise. Most impressively of all, it evens finds time for Neneh Cherry to purr a few lines from Salt N Pepa’s Push It in deliciously lascivious fashion. El Mañana is more wistful, but its stuttering beat, acoustic guitars and mournful strings still create an eerily claustrophobic listening experience. Pushing the boundaries of mainstream pop is one thing; but doing so whilst resurrecting eighties hip-hop icons who’ve been AWOL from Planet Pop since 1996 is really quite special.
More juddering pop music from Shayne Ward, Jamie Foxx, Lorraine, The Randoms, King Furnace, Hard-Fi and Studio B after the jump...
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by 586 MEDIA
WigWamWigWamInstant KarmaOf all the comebacks we weren’t expecting this year, WigWam (CDs) must outrank the Leo Sayer resurrection for shock value. Betty Boo – on a sabbatical from Planet Pop since 1992 – has hooked up with Alex James – the bassist from Blur who likes to wear a man skirt – for a nonsense-pop [...]
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