Luke Warm...

I enjoy reading the end of year 'Best of' lists of album of the year - there's always the chance that you missed a great new band or a stunning comeback by someone who jumped the shark back in '97... Chances are though, if it's that great you probably would have heard about it by now, and the whole process ends up like sneaking a look in somebody's medicine cabinet hoping to find a few Oxycontin and ending up with a couple of expired Aspirin... Anyways, one such 'best of' list was topped by a couple of bands I'd never heard of: The Indelicates and Vanilla Swingers - both boy/girl duo's out of the UK...



The Indelicates certainly had a few good song titles, such as 'Fun is for the feeble minded', 'Waiting for Pete Doherty to die' (aren't we all?) and best of all 'We hate the kids'... The guy sounds exactly like Luke Haines, the music much like The Auteurs and it's only when the girl starts singing that you realise you're not listening to 'After Murder Park'. The girl sounds like a more plummy Kirsty McColl - like if she'd gone to school at Coloma Convent instead of down the street at Ashburton (if you know what I'm talking about fine, if not...)

The Indelicates on MySpace...



The couple of Vanilla Swingers tracks that I heard were nothing to write home about - the more electronic one (Goodbye Lennon) sounded like a average imitation of Black Box Recorder (that Haines guy is everywhere this week!) as the singer does her best Sarah Nixey. That was at least better than 'I'll stay next to you' which sounded more like Fleetwood Mac...

Vanilla Swingers on MySpace