Something for the weekend
Never let it be said that I’m not Down With The Kids. My friend V put me onto this new single by a band called Alphabeat - and now it’s my gift to you this weekend. Enjoy (and click below for the video on YouTube):
‘Fascination’ has got ‘Radio 2′ written all over it, and reminds me hugely of at least one other record (the intro is ‘Mickey’ by Toni Basil… but the rest of it? Anyone?). But it’s fab, and over far too quickly.
There’s also something so clearly Scandanavian about it/them. I didn’t have to go to Wikipedia to work out that they’re Danish. (Although actually, I would have guessed Swedish. But then when it comes to pop, it’s all the same thing, innit?) And is it just me, or does the lead singer guy remind you of the skinny kid in Superbad? Especially when he wears the cardigan, for some reason. In fact: precisely at 1:08 in the video.
March 9th, 2008 at 12.21am
yeah, it’s av. good tune, bouncy and poppy, with no depth at all, lovely. But it does sound very 70s somehow.
March 9th, 2008 at 2.11pm
yes I’m not quite sure which decade.. but whichever one it is, it’s very familiar :-). guess there’s nothing new under the sun, eh. apart from Bjork.
March 9th, 2008 at 4.57pm
who is, in my opinion, not an icelandic pixie, but a goddess.