UK New Releases Monday September 9th, 2009: Girls, Girls, Girls…
Albums released this week:
Biffy Clyro – ‘Only Revolutions’
Githead – ‘Landing’
Lupe Fiasco – ‘Super Fiasco Bros’
Robbie Williams – ‘Reality Killed The Video Star’
Shirley Bassey – ‘Performance’
Snow Patrol – ‘Up To Now’
Singles released this week:
Ash – ‘Arcadia’
Athlete – ‘Black Swan Song’
Girls – ‘Laura’
Leona Lewis – ‘Happy’
N-Dubz – ‘I Need You’
Sugababes – ‘About A Girl’
The Cheek – ‘Hung Up’
The Cribs – ‘We Share The Same Skies’
Weezer – ‘(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To’
Girls sure became this years model pretty fast. Here is my review of the band when they opened for Los Campesinosat Webster Hall in early August of this year:
“Girls is a trickier question. The lead singer starts off looking like “Where’s Waldo” and ends up looking like a flock of seagulls and the band has a clutch of great, i do mean great, songs that they haven’t quite figured out how to present -it suggest they should record an album and have audiencess find them that way first so we aren’t trying to figure out the songs when the excitement level isn’t enough to hold our attention. At first the band are simply a drag with the occasional jam no harm no foul but after awhile a rapport begins to build between band and audience and I would feel a lot more positive about “Girls” if the lead singer hadn’t ended the night alone with an acoustic guitar being totally ignored. Bad move and he should drop it.”
