
I’m a little bit late to the party on this one, so I won’t dwell. But this is pretty great – a clear step forward from her previous scrappy recordings, Florence is now producing a kind of weird-pop that’s not exactly new (it draws on the obvious and ever-present influence of Kate Bush and comes out sounding a little like a livelier Bat For Lashes) but is nonetheless quite spectacular. It keeps growing, both in the course of the track, and with repeated listens. Excellent stuff.
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Now this is a funny one. I quite liked the first teaser track – Come Monday Night – from Stuart Murdoch’s side-project. But this is just… a bit bad. A remake of the highlight of Belle & Sebastian’s decent-enough Life Pursuit album (Original video here), it saps almost all of the tumbling joie de vivre from the original, replacing it with something akin to a meandering late-period Beautiful South b-side. Perplexing. Perhaps it makes more sense in the context of the album?
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Tags: belle & sebastian, god help the girl

There’s a bit of a whiff of Novelty Record about this, especially given the video’s more expensive take on the YouTube fanvid tradition of over-literal video readings.
It’s pretty good fun, with a vocal from Yeasayer’s Chris Keating sounding nicely at home in SMD’s happy-electro-pop hands. It never quite… goes anywhere… though. Needs a more brutal remix. Anyone care to point me in the direction of one?
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Tags: simian mobile disco, yeasayer