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T he Long Blondes
– New Idols (Thee Sheffield Phonographic)
Champion Kickboxer – Like Him & Her & Her & Me
What is it about slabs of coloured
plastic that’s so delicious? Thee Sheffield Phonographic are to be congratulated
for producing these two thoroughly lickable records, one pink, one white.
Put them together and it looks like a big slab of coconut ice or one of those
chewy drumstick lollies, mmmm…
The Long Blondes are presented on pink blancmange coloured
vinyl which unfortunately is scratched to buggery, unless all that skipping
and repeating is an art-rock joke?
Starting with an echoey 50s / JAMC (choose your era) drumbeat, ‘New
Idols’ skids along with a disarming lightness of touch. Guitars clink
and ping cheerily and the vocals are more mellifluous and less Sioux-strident
than on other LBs tracks. It sounds like hearing The Selector skronking from
your radio as you shake out yer cornflakes and you momentarily cheer up as
you forget that you haven’t done your homework. Anyway, apparently there
are only 500 copies and it’s selling like something popular that lots
of people want to buy. You might be too late, but buy, buy, buy at www.theespc.com
RRRG: Indisposed laughable purple hearts
RRRG: Vanishing loathsome cliffhanger
www.championkickboxer.co.uk
