feeling listless

Music I'll skip over the latest number one single by Holly Valance (why, Flick, why?) and return to the previous week's 'Freak Like Me' by The Sugababes. People who been visiting this place for while will know I've been championing this group for a looooong time. The fact that their first 'chart' 'topper' is a cover of a bootleg is in keeping. I'm just sorry I couldn't post this grippingly positive review any sooner:

"This is a shock, and a thrill, after a period when most of the best singles have sounded so poised and expensive - "Freak Like Me" presents a template for a fuzzed-up R&B/pop noise, crude as f**k but still excitingly android. (Think of the Neptunes in a garage, building Robot Wars monsters out of loose wires and power tools). It's also the most rhythmically brutish R&B production in ages, a stomp'n'smack forward march owing more to Glam than Timbaland. You might argue this isn't R&B at all, but the girls' voices tell a different, sexier, story."

The real trick will be next single. Where else is there to go?