Moloko Report
May. 17th, 2006 02:34 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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poptimistsOn the last Now poll thread I was CHALLENGED to go and download some Moloko songs and promised the Lex I'd report back. I downloaded one I thought I liked - "Indigo" - and two I thought I didn't - "Fun For Me" and "The Time Is Now".
WHAT I THOUGHT: Saying "I don't like her voice" always feels like a cop-out, but there it is, I don't like her voice. I like the stylists she's borrowing from - Eartha Kitt &c. - but she doesn't have nearly enough charisma and sounds quite sneery to me. The lyrics may not help - she has the sort of voice which would suit acidic wit, but she's putting it to the service of non-sequiturs. The impression is of a gag you're not in on - some people like this in music, I realise.
The backing on "Fun For Me" is good, though - I don't know, aside from Roisin's voice, why I thought it was just Portishead-lite when I first heard it: its squelchiness has aged very well. So this is a keeper for that reason.
"Indigo" was a disappointment - I remember it as being a lot more outlandish: the "Rameses! Colossus!" bit was Scooter-esque in my memory and so the reality sounds half-hearted. Less interesting music, too.
"The Time Is Now" sounds much better than I remembered - her singing is softer, the tune is better, there's momentum and elegance, it's pretty good.
So on balance - an improvement, but I still wouldn't say I liked them.
WHAT I THOUGHT: Saying "I don't like her voice" always feels like a cop-out, but there it is, I don't like her voice. I like the stylists she's borrowing from - Eartha Kitt &c. - but she doesn't have nearly enough charisma and sounds quite sneery to me. The lyrics may not help - she has the sort of voice which would suit acidic wit, but she's putting it to the service of non-sequiturs. The impression is of a gag you're not in on - some people like this in music, I realise.
The backing on "Fun For Me" is good, though - I don't know, aside from Roisin's voice, why I thought it was just Portishead-lite when I first heard it: its squelchiness has aged very well. So this is a keeper for that reason.
"Indigo" was a disappointment - I remember it as being a lot more outlandish: the "Rameses! Colossus!" bit was Scooter-esque in my memory and so the reality sounds half-hearted. Less interesting music, too.
"The Time Is Now" sounds much better than I remembered - her singing is softer, the tune is better, there's momentum and elegance, it's pretty good.
So on balance - an improvement, but I still wouldn't say I liked them.
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