Adding to a host of recent singles which hint of potent times for their creators and the releases they are taken from is The Girl Inside of You, the new track from A Blue Flame. Plucked from their latest album What We’ve Become Is All That Now Remains, the single is a thumping slice of rousing songwriting and a melody thick sound with a Brit Pop meets folk rock flavouring and an encounter very easy to get seriously involved in.
A Blue Flame is the project of Leicester based songwriter, Richard Stone and What We’ve Become Is All That Now Remains the successor to debut album Someone Else’s Dreams Will Fill Our Home which was released in 2013 under the name of Woodman Stone. With its lead song Does Madonna Dream of Ordinary People gaining strong airplay across the likes of BBC 6Music and BBC Leicester, Tom Robinson was one declaring their support, calling Stone’s music: “wonderful unashamed pop music that comes with an inbuilt English Pop sensibility running through to its very core“. The Girl Inside of You is destined to find the same success and more, with What We’ve Become Is All That Now Remains, which features some of Leicester’s best musicians including co-producer Adam Ellis on guitar and Tony Robinson from The Beautiful South on keys and brass, following suit.
The Girl Inside of You strolls in with bold hooks and rhythms aligned to an instant melodic lure. It’s commanding breath relaxes slightly as Stone’s lyrical and vocal prowess works on the imagination but the song’s potency never lessens as creative enterprise and punchy emotion fuelled imagination is added to its web of temptation.
As subsequent smart twists and turns ensure there is nothing predictable about the song, there is something of The Jam in their Setting Sons period spicing to the encounter which as you can imagine does it no harm either. The Girl Inside of You is one of those songs hard to get enough of; one all the while suggesting that a definite look at the album it graces (look out for our review soon) is in order.
The Girl Inside of You is out now with What We’ve Become Is All That Now Remains available 19th August @ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/a-blue-flame/id1078425623 and http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/ABlueFlame
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Pete RingMaster 19/08/2016
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The Woolwich based Ooberfuse is the creative union of Hal St John and Cherrie Anderson, and a project which has seduced much of the world across hundreds of gigs including performing to an audience of 2 million in Madrid and playing for hundreds in one of Rio de Janeiro’s notorious favelas. They have toured across the UK, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Canada, the Philippines, and Iraq whilst stirring up support from the likes of Paul Oakenfold, Sister Bliss (Faithless), Ministry of Sound, BBC Introducing’s Tom Robinson, and Amazing Radio’s Jim Gellatly. Following the successful trip mentioned at the start, Ooberfuse has UK spotlights in their sight again with Secret Tattoo, the successor to their praised 2015 single Fall and a song inspired by the thought, “Although love hides its face away from the gaze of a loveless world it nevertheless sprays, like urban graffiti, colourful designs on the flesh of the human ear.”
The title track from the band’s new EP, the new single swiftly has ears enticed with its opening caress of guitar and a quickly following and fuller lure of chords, melodies, and a darkly enticing bassline. There is an instant swing to the song too, one emulated in the strong vocals and the overall rhythmic dance of the growing song. As mentioned, the track shows a more restrained gait and energy to the last single yet every hook, twist in invention, and melodic smile is designed to and successfully seduce feet and voice into eager involvement.
From its first breath the song is a lively incitement of guitar jangle and warm melodic temptation, and only increasing its coaxing as the excellent vocals and a moodier but still radiant bassline enters the revelry. Crisp beats provide the heartbeat of the song, the bass the drive, and both come wrapped in the creative and adventurous colour of harmonies and guitar. Within its flowing dance of sound and energy there is also a healthy unpredictability at play in the track, showing itself more openly in certain places more than in others but constantly lurking within the smiling character of the song’s anthemic stroll and endeavour.
Coquin Migale was formed in 2013 by friends studying at Northumbria University. Swiftly the band released The Yellow Room EP, a free download which quickly lured in vocal fans. The foursome’s live performances equally caught the keen ears and hunger of a heavily increasing many and subsequently it did not take too long before the likes of NME, Generator, and Fresh On The Net also caught on to the band; a media interest shown again this year with the new single being featured by Tom Robinson on the first BBC 6 Music Introducing Mixtape of 2015. Released via End Of The Trail Records, Gold is the kind of bait anglers dream of and you can only suspect it will induce a fresh and wide expanse of new ears and mouths to get in on the band’s emergence.
such it’s mischievous and magnetically infectiousness and quirky charm.
an additional caress of reserved but potent guitar strings. That Pretenders simmer is lively from the start, recalling Hynde and co around their first album but similarly casting a fresh and vivacious breath which has a texture more aligned to a Metric or even The Cranberries. The song continues to entwine ears and imagination with its spicy melody and sultry temptation, assisted by a great dark bassline which flirts behind ever compelling vocals. The song is delicious, pure manna for body and soul and the most rigorous enticement likely to be heard this year for any album.
