This week we have reviews of the new releases by YOAV, Cazals and The Futureheads
YOAV – Club Thing
There's something about the mesmerising silky smooth, emotive voice and interlaced hypnotic beats that gets your shoulders twitching in unconscious desire to dance yourself dervish blessed and dizzy. This music grows on you like a passion flower in a conservatory. 4/5
Rikki Wright
Cazals – Somebody Somewhere
Electronica, crisp percussion, spiky guitars and a soulful quality to the vocal make for slice of superior pop that brings to mind bands as diverse as Babyshambles, The Police, Elvis Costello and Daft Punk. It’s firmly in the 80’s revival vein, but it’s got enough originality and life to make it worth a listen. 3/5
Grace Tiede
The Futureheads – This Is Not The World
Harking back to bands like XTC, Sham 69, The Boomtown Rats, with the odd trace of Sex Pistols-like drums and guitar, this is all about walking backwards into music from nearly thirty years ago, with not much in the way of innovation to bring it into this futureworld.
It’s alright, for a bit of idle head nodding, but it fails to create the excitement that the original makers of this sort of stuff brought to their music. 3/5
Josh Green