This week’s new crop of videos were delivered fresh today from our turbo video oven - to view correctly, spread butter on the top and lick your screen to taste. Alternatively, you could just click the handy play buttons on the videos - the choice is yours. This time around we welcome back the Black Kids and Santogold, as well as saying a big hello to Ginger Woz Red - crap name, jaunty tune. Here goes…
Black Kids - “Look At Me (When I Rock Wichoo)” - due out September 8th
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First up this Wednesday are the Black Kids, hot from playing the festival circuit this summer. RealMusic Blog saw the crew playing Wakestock in a tent with possibly the worst sound system in the stratosphere, but they still managed to rawk in our books. This follow-up to their ditty about not wanting to teach your boyfriend to dance is nothing short of cosmic, although we’re not sure why the singer chappy who sounds a dead ringer for Robert Smith sings “When I Rock With You” rather than “Wichoo” - we’ve read the title and we wanted more Pussycat Dolls-styled hilarity, godammit! That aside though, this video has it all - animation, Joseph-style shiny capes, ladies pretending to drive fast cars, a lead singer with cheekbones to die for and space. Yes, space! It’s all very melancholy, then jolly and then a bit Daft Punk-dancey - something for everyone you might say. Hurrah for the Black Kids. Who aren’t all that black at all, just in case you were wondering…
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Santogold - “Lights Out” - out now
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Wowee! If there’s one artist who’s been talked up a typhoon of late, it’s Philadelphia’s Santi White, aka Santogold. Hard on the fashion front as well as the 80s-inspired tunes, Ms Gold uses this video to showcase a mazy patchwork of patterns and prints which she sports on her person, lips and drums as well as the wallpaper behind her. It’s all v psychedelic or Coronation St circa 1977, depending on your point of reference. “Lights Out” also brings in a spot of shadow play from our Santi, while her hysterical backing troupe again perform with military precision, amazingly sans smirk. The track itself is a laid-back and stripped down strutting indie number: watch it with your eyes closed and you might think it’s one of Beth Ditto’s mates trying to drum her way out of her garage. But if you watch it with your eyes closed you’ll miss the video and all its trippy charm, so stop it right now. Ms White has enough famous admirers on-board, but will this track cause more ordinary mortals to turn their heads? Take a look and decide…
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Ginger Woz Red - “So Good” - due out September 15th
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Finally this week we come to Ginger Woz Red, an ill-advised name for a band if ever we heard one. RealMusic Blog has visions of Chris Evans bouncing round the video screen wearing a wacky grin and turning into Timmy Mallett right before our very eyes. Thankfully, it’s not the case. Rather, this tune is fresh from the team who brought you 2007’s Disco Bombing (no, us either), and yes, they wear red hair! Should you be excited? Well, if you like 90s dance anthems, then yes, get very excited! The video sees said featured Ms Solette singing her own name in a sultry fashion, writhing in black near a red car and shimmying in skimpy white pants with rusette hair. There’s a muscle mary in shorts spinning about and then Ms Solette’s in a bar, fully dressed, chucking a pint of beer over some bloke after he checks out a blond, thus disproving the theory that blonds have more fun - reds do in Ginger Woz Red! However, RealMusic Blog still can’t quite get over the fact that the band use the word ‘Woz’ in their title: 90s tune, 80s name. Till next time…
(Clare Lydon)
