No easy feat, a well-placed whistle can be a boon to a tune. Think Otis Redding (naturally), Air, Peter, Bjorn & John (begrudgingly), and put Bryan bloody Ferry firmly to the back of your mind. Here’s another contender, new FatCat signing C Duncan, who purses his lips as if conducting a pleasingly mellifluous march during new single ‘For’.
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Candy Darling are named after Lou Reed’s transgender muse, so it’s perhaps no surprise that their debut single is all brash melodrama. Yet the camp theatrics of the Bristol trio’s grinding electro noir is shot through with malice on ‘Money’, a spurned lover’s defiant stand given edge by the cold-hearted clarity of Emily Breeze’s powerful vocal (reminiscent of Karen O’s), as she proclaims:
Read MoreWatch: Childhood - Solemn Skies + UK Tour
Following the release of their critically acclaimed debut single ‘Blue Velvet’ last November, London four-piece Childhood will release their new double a-side single ‘Solemn Skies’ / ‘Semester’ digitally and on 10-inch vinyl on 10th June 2013 on House Anxiety/Marathon Artists. The two tracks were produced by Rory Attwell, formerly of Test Icicles.
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