Thursday, March 25, 2010

Dragonette | Easy



The offensively underrated Dragonette soldier on with video #4 from their delectable second album Fixin To Thrill. Following on from the uplifting melancholia of the Pick Up The Phone clip, the Canadian troupe once again lend centre-stage to singer Martina Sobrara, who struts around lights and mirrors in plenty of spondiferous hairstyles. Easy is just the sort of track you need on a rainy day like today – it features the same brooding tone and brutal honesty as You Please Me, with a dash of Another Day-style vulnerability (both tracks feature on their debut album Galore). Yet, if it’s all a smidgen too mid-tempo for your liking, then there’s always the Buffetlibre reinterpretation available for free here.


Alizée | Les Collines (Never Leave You)


The phrase "Catchy foreign language pop song" is likely to strike terror into the ears of any music lover over the age of 6. Not since the heady days of The Ketchup Song and Dragostea Din Tei has such a track garnered popularity on these shores, but fear not – Alizée’s comeback single Les Collines (Never Leave You) is a sensual, enticing little number that, despite being sung half in French and half in English, still manages to get lodged in your head. The chant of "Never wanna leave you (ooh!)" in the chorus makes you instantly fall in love with her – if that won’t then the moody, stylish video surely will.