Singles Reviews
Betty Curse – Girl With Yellow Hair
Goth, apparently, is the new black. Riding on a black-laced wave comes Betty Curse, spewing Avril-esque guitar hooks and silly couplets about a girl who doesn’t want to do what other people want her to do, and the terrible angst this state of affairs causes her.
Moby and Debbie Harry – New York, New York
Inevitably, Harry’s voice is by far the best thing about this strangely joyless celebration of the NYC. It’s the only new track on Moby’s soon to be released Best Of, created to promote the album, and it seems as if the bald vegan beatmaster couldn’t really be arsed to do much more than press ‘demo’ on his keyboard.
McFly – Star Girl
Weirdly reminiscent of S Club 7’s ‘Reach’, Star Girl sounds exactly as you might imagine it would. In fact, you might as well listen to it with your ears closed, although if you did, you’d miss the immortal lyric: “I felt afraid as you kissed me/On your intergalactical Frisbee”, not to mention an entirely predictable pun on ‘Uranus’.
The Young Knives – The Decision
Easily the best thing in this column, if only by default, ‘The Decision’ involves lots of shouting about colours, being the Prince of Wales and having been a difficult child. Much like a gentler and less Hispanic Pixies, The Young Knives are afraid of neither a well-placed yelp, nor of entirely nonsensical and unconnected lyrics.
