The problem with releasing a single as clever, ubiquitous and ultimately sell-by-date-centric as ‘Thou Shalt Always Kill’ is that prejudice will inevitably be formed for following records. Especially when the press release for the new record spends 75 per cent of its paper banging on about the last one.
Cleverly, ‘The Beat That My Heart Skipped’ raises the bar in verbal terms, avoiding eyebrow raising and mere social commentary and throwing in some narrative and a nice bit of deep-voiced “bomb bomb bomb ba de baa” chanting.
Production values are upped too, with some beefy synth and clattering drums driving things along. It’s still a little cheeky and a tad nudge-nudge, but it’s a hell of a lot better than a ‘list song’, that cheapest of all musical routes.
Ultimately, it sounds a tad more like a rapid-fire The Streets than they’d like, but there’s enough here to suggest that we may not hang Dan Le Sac and MC Scroobius Pip out to dry on the basis of just one song.
And that is quite the result.
its quite good isnt it
Yeah
Better than 6/10. An 8 at least.
best offering yet
kind of like a surreal, disco art brut
what is going on?
this is shit-he was in time out last week with a whole page.What has become of civilisation?
Enough with the Ali G impression. You are sadly white boy! Deal with it.
since when did ali g have a massive beard
and wear a short sleeved shirt with a tie?
DiS...
Really don't like the scroob, do they?