Singles Bar – Chocksy vs. Zac Brown Band vs. Ted Zed vs. Joseph Arthur
CHOCKSY
Your Town
Platform
Oh, this is nice. Very now in that it’s very eighties synthpop, which means they’ve timed things very well indeed.
Turns out that Chocksy is some English fella called David James, and anyone who likes early Depeche Mode is going to lap this up. To make things even better for them there folks, the minimalist backing is overlaid with a deadpan Neil Tennent style vocal.
This one is a keeper, so get your Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 and dance like it’s 1981.
ZAC BROWN BAND
All Alright
Southern Ground
The Zac Brown Band are huge country stars over in the colonies, with gold discs and awards coming out of their ears. So quite why they would want to collaborate with Dave Grohl is beyond me.
But they did, and this is the lead single from the EP to tie in with their appearance at Country To Country. But there is good news. It sounds exactly like the Zac Brown Band, with nary a hint of grunge or Foo Fighters pop rock. So I can breathe a sigh of release, cue it up for my new country radio show which starts in April on Get Ready To Rock Radio, and pretend the whole Grohl thing was just a bad dream
TE
D ZED
Alien Monday
BMG
Blimey! We really are getting all retro here as Ted Zed (Edward Griggs to his folks) pops up with a Youth produced debut single that sounds like the bastard love child of Todd Rundgren and Kurtis Mantronik.
He’s singing about the feeling of desolation as you take your Monday commute to work, something that a baby of his age knows nothing about. Wait till your my age, pal, then you’ll have something to complain about.
But this electronic delight makes up for his cheek, a delightful welter of bass synth and spacerock bleeps. A cracker of a single, and a name to keep an eye out for.
JOSEPH ARTHUR
Missy Baba EP
Realworld
Four songs from the double album “The Ballad Of Boogie Christ”. Well based on the four infernal caterwauls I’ve just been subjected to, that sounds like a fate worse than death.
it’s like the worst Bob Dylan song ever (and there are a lot to choose from) took an overdose of downers and tried to rut with a hippy apple farmer. ‘House Of Your Love’ was the worst of a dreadful bunch, and if it hadn’t been a CD, I would have checked to make sure it was playing at 33rpm, and that I hadn’t flipped it to 1rpm by mistake. Now where is that Ted Zed record?
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