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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.This week, one-man bands. Following in the lonely footsteps of such one-man bands as Beck and Tom Vek, young Londoner Jamie T has chosen to eschew sharing his tour bus, royalties and spotlights with four skinny hangers-on, and go instead for solo glory. And on the evidence of debut single release Salvador – taken from the Betty And The Selfish Sons EP (Virgin) – he’s more than capable of putting together a sweetly scruffy indie ditty without resorting to placing “bassist wanted” ads in the back of the NME. Also striking bravely out on her own this week – well, aside from the fact that she has two mysterious-looking women called “The Watson Twins” in tow – is Rilo Kiley frontwoman Jenny Lewis. Despite its somewhat dramatic title, Rise Up With Fists! (Rough Trade) is not a chest-beating, militant protest song, but rather a lovely, shimmering slither of soulful alt country. Real purdy, as they say in the imaginary, stereotypical southern US state that exists only in our heads. Can we make it three solo artists in a row? We can. Richard H Kirk will be known to the more bleep-minded amongst you as one half of legendary Sheffield industrial music pioneers Cabaret Voltaire; a group that heavily influenced the first wave of UK techno producers, with artists such as LFO, Orbital and Aphex Twin all owing them a stylistic debt. It’s sort of fitting, then, that Kirk’s new single, Toned (Dust Science), should be so reminiscent of LFO’s 1991 anthem, LFO. It’s the circle of life, it’s the endless rotation of the musical wheel, it’s pop eating itself, and so on. Next up are Sweden’s The Concretes, who have that uniquely Scandinavian gift (think The Cardigans, The Wannadies) for combining out-there leftfield stylings with purist pop sensibilities – as demonstrated by the heady melodic whoosh that is new single, Chosen One (EMI). Textbook indie-pop, right there. And finally, we have Wigwam (Instant Karma) by Wigwam – a duo consisting of, as many of you will already know, Alex “Blur” James and Betty “Where Are You Baby?” Boo. The song itself is a chirpy little bouncer that’s one part Euro-dance cheese-up, to two parts Girls And Boys, and it’s got “hit” written all over it in huge, glittery letters. But if you’re only here for the buffet and free MP3s, allow us you to direct to the official website of XL-signed teen punk upstarts Be Your Own Pet, wherein you can grab yourself a free MP3 of typically exuberant BYOP ditty, Vacation. It’s a slight bugger to find, though: basically, you need to look to the bottom right-hand side of the page, where it says “check out”, then click on the song title and you are very much away.
Joe Madden
All singles are released on 06 March 06.
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comment by daztraction
Mar 8, 2006
So where's that Sansava review! I see the name in the header. . .
comment by JoeMadden
Mar 6, 2006
Doh – so it is a remix Testone, listening to it again. That'll teach me not to read press releases. Or pay close attention to intros...
comment by Wetrorelly
Mar 5, 2006
Being a bit geeky here, but isn't this just a remix of his own Sweet Exorcist bleep classic Testone? For trainspotting sake this was released on Warp records in 1990 before LFO.
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