thecocknbullkid - 'On My Own' (from Pinglewood) 22-year-old Anita Blay (aka thecocknbullkid) leads us through a vampish cabaret swing appraising the twin pressures of growing up and acting your age. It's a fine old romp, but you can't help thinking that, despite the trouble it apparently causes, age is on her side. After all, Trip-hop chanteuse Martina Topley-Bird (32) attempted a similar sound on her latest- The Blue God - and got a critical mauling.
Wave Machines - 'I Go I Go I Go' (from Good Weather For Airstrikes) Liverpudlian quartet who have shunned the Afrobeat fixation of their indie contemporaries and instead take inspiration from ... ummm ... Rick James. The jazz-funk reclamation starts here.
Gotye - 'Heart's A Mess' (from I Guess I'm Floating) Critics are calling Gotye (Australian native Wally De Backer) 'the next Beck'. On the evidence of 'Heart's A Mess', a seductive meander through the jazzier bits of Elbow's back catalogue, he's more Buck 65 'next Beck', than Joseph Arthur 'next Beck'. Thank goodness.
Daniel Melingo - 'Pequeno Paria' (from Motel de Moka) A pared down tango bookended by an off-the-wall kazoo and theromin solo all topped off with a toddler on vocals. "Melingo is not crazy", he says on his website. We don't believe him.
Luella Miller - 'Dago Hill Blues' (from Honey, Where you been so long?) 'Dago Hill Blues', originally released in 1926, was Luella Miller's debut and the first of her many collaborations with blues hero Lonnie Johnson (who plays the sinuous violin part on this track).
Yet another premier posting from the good people at Honey, Where You Been So Long? If you've never had a favourite pre-War Blues blog before, you do now.
