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4. Aug. 2009, 18:01
Track: I'm Not Sorry
Artist: thecocknbullkid
Album: Querelle EP (out today, 4 Aug 09)
Tags: electronic, synthpop, 80s, my gang rotw
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Say hello to the sound of London 2009.
thecocknbullkid is 23 year old Hackney girl, Anita Blay, who cleverly weaves her deepest and darkest in and under shiny, glitzy layers of contemporary pop.
On the one hand, her appreciation of artists such as Morrissey, Kate Bush, and Björk influences how she expresses herself in her lyrics. On the other is her very evident knowledge of 80s electronica, soul, funk, hip-hop and dance music. The two combined make for the most exciting thing to come out of London this year, according to the NME.
What she does is play with dark and light, positive and negative, socially acceptable and taboo. In interview, she even hints to some ambiguity to her sexuality, but I'm not buying it, that's got to be sales hype! I reckon she's a straight girl aiming for the gay market like one of her other heroines, Goldfrapp. Nothing wrong with that, that's where trends begin.
If you watch 'Later... with Jools Holland', you may remember her appearance last year, highly unusual for an unsigned artist. She signed to Island Records in March this year and this is her first EP.
There are four tracks, all of them exploring themes of revenge and regret. What's interesting is she is not judgemental about her dark side, for example, she doesn't feel bad that she is capable of hurting someone's feelings and actually feel happy about it. It's a twisted pleasure we all feel but none of us admit to. She is not so much holding a mirror up to herself so much as acknowledging her humanity. Reading about her life, we understand she has every right to be beholden to her demons, yet she seems to have overcome them and if anything, found a way to monetise and make a career out of describing them.
So we have an intelligent, lucid young woman, observing herself and the world around her, which is how she encapsulates the zeitgeist so well. We are in the grip of a vicious recession and we are all suffering behind painted smiles. That's what her music is - an attractive veneer with deceptive depths and half-hidden meanings. Her music twists and turns like beautiful shoals of fish in sunlit waters.
Kiss Kiss Kill - "You can't kiss until you learn to kill". This sinister but catchy track sets the tone. What stands out is how sweet her voice is. You don't expect such a pleasant voice to deliver such threatening lyrics.
Clean Apart - "Oh me, Oh my, Pain has been romanticised" where thecocknbullkid, finding herself with a philanderer, is the jiltee, calling the whole thing off. (a lot of blogs are carrying this track and it has been here in Last.fm for months as a free download.)
Boys and Girls - my favourite from the EP, reminiscent of so many 80s thumping bass dance tracks inspired by Chic. Electronica touching on morbid disco. Sorry, I haven't sat still long enough to figure out the lyrics!
I'm Not Sorry - the current single. This is her Non, je ne regrette rien.
Babs My Gang
Reco of the Week archives
Admin - Stats as of today:
Last.fm listeners of this track - 571
No. of plays scrobbled in Last.fm - 4,720
Position in Last 7 Days: 4 / 42
Position in Last 6 Months: 4 / 454
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Date Added: 21 January 2009
Views: 15,490, Ratings: 55, Comments: 40, Favourited: 181 times
Stats after 7 days:
Last.fm listeners of this track - 602
No. of plays scrobbled in Last.fm - 4,851
Position in Last 7 Days: 5 / 52
Position in Last 6 Months: 4 / 454
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Views: 15,943, Ratings: 57, Comments: 40, Favourited: 184 times
385 Unique Visitors
455 Page Views
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I'm Not SorryArtist: thecocknbullkid
Album: Querelle EP (out today, 4 Aug 09)
Tags: electronic, synthpop, 80s, my gang rotw
Video: Click the pic...
[ full stream here ]
Say hello to the sound of London 2009.
thecocknbullkid is 23 year old Hackney girl, Anita Blay, who cleverly weaves her deepest and darkest in and under shiny, glitzy layers of contemporary pop.
On the one hand, her appreciation of artists such as Morrissey, Kate Bush, and Björk influences how she expresses herself in her lyrics. On the other is her very evident knowledge of 80s electronica, soul, funk, hip-hop and dance music. The two combined make for the most exciting thing to come out of London this year, according to the NME.
What she does is play with dark and light, positive and negative, socially acceptable and taboo. In interview, she even hints to some ambiguity to her sexuality, but I'm not buying it, that's got to be sales hype! I reckon she's a straight girl aiming for the gay market like one of her other heroines, Goldfrapp. Nothing wrong with that, that's where trends begin.
If you watch 'Later... with Jools Holland', you may remember her appearance last year, highly unusual for an unsigned artist. She signed to Island Records in March this year and this is her first EP.
There are four tracks, all of them exploring themes of revenge and regret. What's interesting is she is not judgemental about her dark side, for example, she doesn't feel bad that she is capable of hurting someone's feelings and actually feel happy about it. It's a twisted pleasure we all feel but none of us admit to. She is not so much holding a mirror up to herself so much as acknowledging her humanity. Reading about her life, we understand she has every right to be beholden to her demons, yet she seems to have overcome them and if anything, found a way to monetise and make a career out of describing them.
So we have an intelligent, lucid young woman, observing herself and the world around her, which is how she encapsulates the zeitgeist so well. We are in the grip of a vicious recession and we are all suffering behind painted smiles. That's what her music is - an attractive veneer with deceptive depths and half-hidden meanings. Her music twists and turns like beautiful shoals of fish in sunlit waters.
Kiss Kiss Kill - "You can't kiss until you learn to kill". This sinister but catchy track sets the tone. What stands out is how sweet her voice is. You don't expect such a pleasant voice to deliver such threatening lyrics.Clean Apart - "Oh me, Oh my, Pain has been romanticised" where thecocknbullkid, finding herself with a philanderer, is the jiltee, calling the whole thing off. (a lot of blogs are carrying this track and it has been here in Last.fm for months as a free download.)Boys and Girls - my favourite from the EP, reminiscent of so many 80s thumping bass dance tracks inspired by Chic. Electronica touching on morbid disco. Sorry, I haven't sat still long enough to figure out the lyrics!I'm Not Sorry - the current single. This is her Non, je ne regrette rien.Babs My Gang
Reco of the Week archives
Admin - Stats as of today:
Last.fm listeners of this track - 571
No. of plays scrobbled in Last.fm - 4,720
Position in Last 7 Days: 4 / 42
Position in Last 6 Months: 4 / 454
Video
Date Added: 21 January 2009
Views: 15,490, Ratings: 55, Comments: 40, Favourited: 181 times
Stats after 7 days:
Last.fm listeners of this track - 602
No. of plays scrobbled in Last.fm - 4,851
Position in Last 7 Days: 5 / 52
Position in Last 6 Months: 4 / 454
Video
Views: 15,943, Ratings: 57, Comments: 40, Favourited: 184 times
385 Unique Visitors
455 Page Views
.
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Orange_Anubis Great recommendation Babs - and timely too, I had no idea she had a new EP out. She seems very underpromoted all round, yet she's so ace, thanks for spreading the word!
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Babs_05 Thanks. :) I think she's my new obsession. I won't rest until I know she's got an album coming, then I won't rest until I hear it, then I won't rest till I know it note for note. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I've got the song 'Boys and Girls' reminds me of on the tip of my tongue... just waiting till I suddenly go "Ah-ha!" and look it up. Hopefully, it's the right tune...
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Orange_Anubis
I just tried to buy the Querelle EP via the link in Spinner, which takes you to the iTunes store, where... it doesn't seem to be up yet. :-( Anyway, I can help you to rest (from the FIRST PART of your three-part demand anyway, heh) - I did a bit of digging around and apparently she's working on her debut album with Gonzales which is amazing news - his old albums (like Presidential Suite (Spotify link here) are big favourites of mine, full of leftfield party music and torchsongs for weirdos.
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IanAR Thanks, Babs! Since I read this, [i]
sinners[/i] became one of my fav'e tracks of last year :) Ian[sub] European Electronic Trainspotters Propaganda Lounge[/sub]
