Emily - Shocking Pinks Single Review
Shocking Pinks
Single Review
Yeaaahhh! I had missed that great shoegazing sound made in Scotland, but it seems to have now resurrected somewhere in New Zealand.
Freshly signed by DFA Records (of The Rapture and LDC Soundsystem fame), Shocking Pinks give away their appreciation for The Pastels and The Jesus and Mary Chains, with their new single ‘Emily’, off their fourth eponymous album, released last September.
With languidly mumbled vocals (reminiscent of Stephen Pastel’s or Howe Gelb’s), twisted guitars and decadent drums, topped with disillusioned lyrics (“You cut your hair/but I never care as long as you’re still here… If I ever recognise your face/I know I’ll cry”), ‘Emily’ is set to promising echoes from spring through to summer, at impromptu karaoke or picnic sing-along. Until sunshine allows such opportunity, ‘Emily’ will most probably wipe many a listening commuter’s resentment out.
In all its greatness, ‘Emily’ is possibly the most enjoyable “borrowing” released so far this year, and if ‘Emily’ does exist, if not amused, she surely is a muse!
While electro lovers will contend with the other track remixes off this EP (Dressed to Please and Cut Out), shoegazing nostalgists should definitely get hold of Shocking Pinks’ full-length album.
