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Hot Club De Paris
Drop It ’Til It Pops
(Moshi Moshi, 2006)
Lurching, jazz-time explosions laced with irrepressible pop joy by Liverpudlian trio.
It shouldn’t work but it does. Spiky scouse pop songs, hollerin’ sea shanty vox, baroque post-rock guitar twiddling and abstruse lyrical conceits (love amongst casino employees; a clockwork toy circus that becomes a metaphor for everything): bizarre bedfellows that turn out to be uncannily compatible. Hot Club De Paris claim to have bonded over XTC, Don Caballero and The Minutemen, and indeed singing bassist Paul Rafferty shares the plaid-clad piratical vibe and busy four-string attack of the latter’s Mike Watt, helping make his band more of a connoisseur’s proposition than their radio-frotting near-relatives, Futureheads and Young Knives. But the extra work involved following the mix-and-match time signatures and complex, twangular riffing of guitarist Matthew Smith is more than rewarded with irresistible adrenaline surges, pearls of lyrical wit (viz: “sometimes it’s better not to stick bits of each other in each other...”) and a poetic way with the first stirrings of romance.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 07/01/2009
Further Listening
Hot Club De Paris – Live At Dead Lake (Universal, 2008)
XTC – Drums And Wires (Virgin, 1979)
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