son of dave, fryars, moldy peaches and more - singles for THE week beginning 17th march!

by Mat Beal on Sun, 2008/03/16 - 7:16pm
Released: Mon, 2008/03/17 on various indie oddities
ARTROCKER RATING:
SINGLE OF THE WEEK: FRYARS / OLIVE EYES (FROM THE PERDIFY EP ON MAKE MINE MUSIC)

Fryars (officially spelled frYars, annoyingly) is apparently the working name for some young whippersnapper named Ben Garrett, whom the wise sages of the music press have unanimously declared to be the new Nick Cave. The gorgeous, accomplished electropop of ‘Olive Eyes’ sounds nothing like Mr Cave, but the lyrics concern a man who is killed by the child he fathered with his sister-in-law, so perhaps that explains it. It’s excellent, anyway.
Did the early-nineties revival begin without me? Let’s hope not, if this dreary goth racket is anything to go by.
SON OF DAVE / OLD TIMES WERE GOOD TIMES (KARTEL) Good grief, it’s another solo artist named Ben hiding behind a quirky stage name. Benjamin Darvill apparently used to be in Crash Test Dummies (ask your dad), but his official biog doesn’t mention that for some insane reason. He’s now taken it upon himself to update blues for whatever decade this is, growling and parping on a mouth organ over sampled beats. Good stuff. WHITEST BOY ALIVE / GOLDEN CAGE (MODULAR) Berlin isn’t all about techno, you know: Whitest Boy Alive unashamedly describe their sound as shoegazing. By God, it’s been a while! ‘Golden Cage’ starts off with a bassline that briefly sounds like ‘Rapper’s Delight’, before settling into a whistful, minimalist kind of a song. A slightly eccentric choice of single, but nice none the less. SLAVES TO GRAVITY / MR REGULATOR (GRAVITAS) Slaves To Gravity’s Myspace page, meanwhile, has them tagged as “grunge”. What the bloody hell’s going on this week? Did the early-nineties revival begin without me? Let’s hope not, if this dreary goth racket is anything to go by. THE METROS / EDUCATION PART 2 (965) The Metros, on the other hand, are highly contemporary, to the extent that they could well be a hilarious parody of current musical trends. ‘Education Part 2’ sounds like Jamie T fronting the Libertines, and mentions ASBOs. At least one of them was privately educated. Draw your own conclusions; I shall say no more, as I notice they live quite near me and might hunt me down and pop a cap in my ass, or something equally ridiculous. MOLDY PEACHES / ANYONE ELSE BUT YOU (ROUGH TRADE) Let’s end on a positive note, shall we? It is now eight long years since Moldy Peaches’ first and only album. Its loveliest moment, ‘Anyone Else But You’ has been released as a single, presumably on the back of its prominent appearance in the movie Juno. It’s as good a reason as any to hear it again.

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