EXCELLENT

Mon. June 21, 2004
Categories: Abstract Dynamics

M.i.a. ‘Sunshowers’ – like garridge meets Bow Wow Wow – a beat as implacably, anempathically mechanoid as that of ‘I Love U’, a sang-spoken refrain as dreamily addictive as anything off ‘Mutant Disco’…
Rachel Stevens ‘Some Girls’ – finally heard it. It lives up to the hype and then some…

6 Responses to “EXCELLENT”

  1. murray Says:
    June 22nd, 2004 at 1:59 pm

    Sounds interesting, where did you hear it? I know she is a Sri Lankan Tamil, whose family were refugees from Jaffna, settling in South London/Surrey

  2. amblongus Says:
    June 22nd, 2004 at 3:09 pm

    The video for “Some Girls” (which starts out looking like a tribute to your favorite Dr Who episode) can be found on her website. Like the song it starts as sparkly pop fun but doesn’t really do anything except last four and a half minutes. Dozens of scantily clad young women climbing out of the sewers ought to build up to something wild and spectacular….

  3. mark k-p Says:
    June 22nd, 2004 at 3:27 pm

    Sounds interesting, where did you hear it?
    On MTV … had no context, didn’t know anything about her…
    Nigel, yr being a curmudgeon…

  4. henry Says:
    June 22nd, 2004 at 6:01 pm

    both of these tracks can be streamed at Fluxblog…

  5. mms Says:
    June 23rd, 2004 at 1:39 pm

    got a link to fluxblog – can’t seem to goggle it without hitting a stream of pop ups ..

  6. Kek-w Says:
    June 24th, 2004 at 10:38 pm

    yeah, I thought ‘some girls’ was great too…glad it isn’t just me…saw it on TOTP (ha!)…always had a soft spot for SC7…