Music
Stream the album, No Need To Be Downhearted at AversionCheck out the Myspace profile for more songs
Steve Lamacq’s Rebel Playlist winner
Steve: “It’s not, in 3rd place, Alberta Cross, 14% of the vote. And in 2nd it was The Ponys… The Rebel Playlist Winner: This came out on top at a landslide victory for The Electric Soft Parade with 68 percent of the vote”
The single came 2nd on 6 Music’s Round Table Friday 9th March
Johnny Dee, Andrew Collins and Ben Watt of Everything But The Girl joined Steve to discuss singles from Ash, Jack Penate, the LCD Soundsystem album and more! Song scores
S: It’s Electric Soft Parade. We were just trying to work out how many albums Electric Soft Parade have had out. Is it three, is it four? Help us out, I’m sure you can let us know in the chatroom. This one’s on Truck records, the new album, it’s called No Need To Be Downhearted. Taken from it, that’s the new single. Johnny Dee?
JD: I really liked that, there was bits of that that made me think ELO goes shoegaze kind of thing, you know. I don’t know how to describe that beautiful keyboard stanza in there but I like all the discordant little bits of guitar and stuff…
S: I’d like to say one thing, that’s the best bit of air keyboard I’ve seen in a long time… Ben, what did you think?
B: I was quite into that, I liked the sound of his voice. The chorus has got that serene sailing thing that Doves do quite well I thought; someone on the chatroom just mentioned Grandaddy as well which I think’s pretty astute. Yeah, best so far from me, I think.
S: Yeah? Andrew Collins.
AC: They’ve won the chatroom, they came up with Grandaddy, that was a brilliant reference, I saw that typed out and that’s what it is, which is good, for a band from Brighton to have a bit of an American influence. But they’ve kept their soul, I think. This is better than anything they’ve done for a long time.
S: I think weirdly they were freed up, when the two brothers went off and joined Brakes, or formed Brakes with Eamon from British Sea Power, I think that gave them the chance to just play and enjoy music again, it sounds like that’s what they’re doing on this.
Electric Soft Parade – yes, the chatroom, very positive, 7 out of 10 already in the chatroom. I don’t want to sway you obviously, Johnny Dee?
JD: I’m going eight.
S: Excellent. Ben?
B: I’ll give it a seven.
S: And Andrew?
A: I’m going eight.
S: This could be one of those songs that keeps growing on you the more you listen to it – I think you’re probably right, John Clarke in the chatroom, thank you very much. I think that probably puts Electric Soft Parade in the lead but still to come… (LCD Soundsystem won)