Labels: Trouble in Mind
Review by: Andy Malcolm
The A-side here is, virtually, as good a song as I have heard in 2009. It’s a big, stompy, bastard of a pop song. It’s difficult for me to say what it sounds like, as I don’t really know. It is so simple, but so deleriously catchy. It grooves along, with slightly scratchy vocals and only vaguely scruffy production. Perhaps if Mark Sultan was making really poppy stuff, it’d sound like this? So a mix of Sultan and the Jam or something. Basically 60s pop / rock and roll / and something else. Why waste time trying to define something this good though. SONG AND A HALF.
“Goodbye Girl” on the flip despatches with some of the song writing smarts, but leans on 50s / 60s rock and roll again to make a pretty fun song that I have no complaints about – it’s just not as good as the slice of genius on the other side of the record. Then again, not much that I have heard this year is.