Song reviews

Playful in that way that many recreations of the punk sound are, Liliths Army bounce amiably through “Eat My TV” with much in the way of wry humour evident. At least I now know what anarchy in Northamptonshire sounds like.

Now here’s a song that will chill your wine. “Working On The Next Life” is elegantly sung and so cool that you could use it to survive the heat of the Sahara desert. No idea who Club 8 are but I guarantee that they wear sunglasses when indoors.

I feel that I should know who David Cloyd is as he clearly hails from those halcyon days when power pop was intertwining itself with the remnants of soft rock. His song “If We Could Escape” is duly polished to commercial standards.

“Ghost” has its moments of awkwardness yet Hannah Duckworth has the charm to make this song more than music by numbers and her words soon loop themselves around you in a rather radio friendly manner.

Propter Hawk do a nice line in straight down the line four on the floor rock music with some suitably robust female vocals giving “Sorry!” the power to energise your beer fuelled ears. Definitely nothing to apologise for here.

Splendidly anodyne, “Fields of Green” sounds just like a pastiche of the more skywards looking side of seventies rock right down to the guitar solo. Of course, it is probably more than that and Izabella Lily duly puts her heart into the vocals.

As modern day Christian music goes, “You Got Up” proceeds at an unexpectedly lively pace with Cece Worley even managing to squeeze in a direct quote from the Bible on her way from start to finish. That’s uplifting.

All sharp angles and discontent, Test Plan do their dance punk thing once more with “My Teeth” and duly grind it up into the soundtrack to flashing lights and maximum volume. I know its retro style but I reckon you could start a fire with this one.

Loops, synths, drum machines and guitars power this every so slightly oddball song and Daphne Blue Underworld then tops “Kicking and Screaming” with enough retro to turn her into a new mall princess.

It has been some time since I heard a conventional pop song that might be described, initially at least, as sweet but “Bleed” is one such song until Edie takes it round the corner into the dark alleyway of vengeance.

Veronica Fusaro stamps the mark of quality on her song “Jealousy” and, with tempo shifting and value for money lyrics as ingredients, her recipe demonstrates that a modern pop song does not necessarily have to be made of plastic.

“Psycho Hysterical” sounds like it should be rehomed to the soundtrack of some worthy modern day musical that reflects on serious matters. Kat Robichaux gives the song some stage makeup to get it into the spotlight.