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The Maccabees: Toothpaste Kisses

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by Mike Diver

Closing proceedings on their debut album Colour It In, ‘Toothpaste Kisses’ is a perfect comedown after so many minutes of hi-res hyperactivity and candy-coated indie-pop hooks and sinkers. What’s super surprising, though, is just how brilliant it sounds as a standalone offering: hardly there compositionally, a stripped-bare arrangement of acoustic guitar and sparse percussion, the song’s brought to life by an affecting vocal from Marmite singer of the past year Orlando Weeks.

And then it happens: a whistle solo to see the song to its muted finish. Wonderfully out of place, the faux-pas is made better by the fact that the whistler can’t actually whistle very well, at all. It’s like a kid’s first attempts while skipping home from school, the theme from Thundercats wobbling about their yet-to-fill brain. Charming and pleasingly understated, ‘Toothpaste Kisses’ brings The Maccabees' current album cycle campaign to an end (presumably) in an unexpectedly lovely fashion.

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  • The Maccabees 8 / 10

He sounds like

Devendra Banhart doesn't he? I like this song, though. Good review.


i agree

he really does sound like devendra bandhart! shocker. and the other video is cooler, the one with the continuous multi-person kiss. ah love this song.


multikissing

just hope none of them had glandular fever...


HATE

that video. A load of media types getting off with each other in a shoreditch pub. YU-HUK! the guy with the tucked in blue shirt and curly hair and the two lezzers with short hair!


^ agreed

quite a clever idea I suppose but it's pretty unpleasant to watch, and the people featured in it look like utter twats.


So...

...didn't this song even chart? It isn't in the uk top 100.


Great song, cool video

It basically looks like bored students having a fun time. Great relevance to the song whils't shocking the audience, the meaning of a good music video. I can also play this tune, really catchy and quite a cool chord structure. A good use of strumming the guitar too!







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