Best single goes to Rainbow Arabia for not doing a monochrome sleeve!
At SUPERSWEET we’re crazy for new formats. As February is the month of restaurant bookings and other expensive gestures otherwise known as ‘love’, we’ve chopped up this month’s singles with our well-sharpened tool, manhandled them into a smooth, shiny bowl and let their collective juices mingle into a musical salad of desire.
Fuelled mainly by fruit-based innuendo, here’s this month’s tasty selection of fruity fun:
Kicking off this month’s singles selection, lo-fi, grungy now-Londoners Yuck are back with the musical equivalent of rhubarb: a long, fuzz-laden track called ‘Holing Out’. Harvest by candlelight in a dark shed...
Japanese folksters Sea Of Bees meanwhile, release ‘Wizbot’; a softly-flavoured, furry-skinned Kiwifruit of a track, while Lulu and the Lampshades give us Cold Water, sounding like a folksier Lily Allen. Lemons ‘innit’.
Next, another faux-gothic female singer-songwriter emerges from the faux-gothic female singer-songwriter factory in the form of Rose Elinor Dougall, who gives us the ethereal ‘Start/Stop/Synchro’. A pomegranate; typically in season in the Northern Hemisphere from September to February.
Trophy Wife were clearly grown in an orchard somewhere between Foals and Bombay Bicycle Club but with slightly less fertiliser. Their single ‘The Quiet Earth’ is a pleasant if forgettable avocado. On a purely factual note, according to Wiki, the word ‘avocado’ comes from the Nahuatl word ‘ahuacatl ’ which means ‘testicle’.
Lykke Li raises the bar this month with the mesmeric groove of ‘I follow Rivers’. “Deep sea baby”! If her last single ‘Get Some’ was a peach, this one’s a mango. Sink your teeth in...
Nothing beats a crisp British Cox’s apple and music doesn’t get more British or crisp than The Chapman Family and their new single, ‘Anxiety’. A three minute pop wonder on the theme of inadequacy worries; those damn foreign apples with their fancy names, hijacking the market, stealing our women...
Meanwhile, summer may still seem like a long way off, but Cults are already bringing back the old skool vibes and urging us to ‘Go Outside’. We’re pretty sure they don’t mean it in quite the same way as George Michael: an innocent orange, freshly squeezed.
Continuing the summery vibes and almost grabbing the top spot this month are exotic husband and wife electro duo Rainbow Arabia with their pineapple of a tune, the super-catchy, super-sweet ‘Without You’. Apparently, drinking a good portion of pineapple juice can make your own ‘juices’ taste better...yummy!
Our single of the month has to be Austra however, whose sexy new dance-floor filler ‘Beat & The Pulse’ is the watermelon of SUPERSWEET’s February fruit bowl. Watermelons contain a substance called citrulline that reacts with your body’s enzymes to create the amino acid Arginine which, due to its effect of relaxing our blood vessels, has a similar effect to Viagra!
Phew, time for a cold shower. - Isaac Howlett