Free New Crap: Oh Martha By The Battle Royale
After last week's terrifying diversion into the world of possibly ironic quickstep ballroom dancing music, you'll be pleased to know that Free New Crap is back on the straight and narrow. And fuzzy. And disco-tinged.
You know the deal with Free New Crap by now – we seek out a solitary free legal mp3 from a tidal wave of crap for you to download and, in return, you download it and spend the rest of the day happy. And today's piece of Free New Crap comes in the form of Oh Martha by The Battle Royale. So far we've been able to ascertain that The Battle Royale are a boy/girl electronic indie disco group from Minneapolis, and they really make some quite superb music. In Oh Martha, The Battle Royale take a bunch of box-fresh influences – Oh No Oh My, Bis, The Spinto Band, The Inspiral Carpets – and pummel them into a tune so bristling with vitality that it should be handed out as a timely antidote to SAD. We're expecting to hear big things of The Battle Royale, and it's only going to be a matter of seconds before we relent and buy their album Sparkle Dust Fantasy, which is stuffed with tunes equally as obscenely fantastic as Oh Martha. Give Oh Martha by The Battle Royale a whirl – it'll make your sodding day.
