Letting Go
There’s nothing worse than a false start. All that build up and gathering of momentum and then BANG! • You get sued by ABBA for plagiarism on your first single. Shame really.
Not just a niggling little resemblance but a full blown facsimile, this is ‘Mamma Mia’ by Sweden’s finest given a twee indie make-over (or is that make-under?), albeit a charmingly fine one. The insistent chorus hook line is unmistakeably catchy and playful but its clearly nothing to do with them. Hell, the lyrics are even ripped off Franz as well. These little scamps have got balls…
The only saving grace of ‘Letting Go’ is a deftly clever arrangement. Dipping up and down with echoing voices and Casio keyboards into danceable but smug-free indie guitar parts and then back again. It’s all going swimmingly until THAT chorus returns.
B-side ‘Problematic Girls’ is more original, more creative and more of an indication of the talent that this terribly named band possess. A pseudo ska beat and a ‘tales of the unexpected’ spindle of notes belies the hippie lyrical grammar “Not cool, not cool…”. Quickening half way through into a Los Campesinos like work out of an LSD-era Beatles song it endears you with a quaint madness.
Veil your rip-offs a touch more thickly next time and we’ll say no more about it TEAM WATERPOLO…How can I resist you?