Lizzie & The Yes Men - Unstoppable (100M Records)
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| Lizzie & The Yes Mean - Unstoppable |
Release Date: 19th August 2013
Describing yourself as Tarantino
Surf Pop is a pretty big claim to hit people with but that is exactly what East
Londoners Lizzie & The Yes Men have done with the promo for their new
single, 'Unstoppable'. I see what they're getting at, there are some twangy,
Dick Dale esque guitars hidden in and around this track but for my money there
is a lot more Britishness and macabre eccentricity to this than 'Tarantino Surf
Pop' suggests. Singer Lizzie Holdforth has a sultry, sexiness about her performance
and seems to be channelling Emma Thompson in Tutti Frutti in a number of ways. The
band behind her, the aforementioned Yes Men, seem to be inspired more by the
likes of My Life Story, the Divine Comedy or David Devant and His Spirit Wife
than anything the West Coast of America has to offer. At nearly five minutes
long I would suggest this song is ever so slightly longer than it needs to be
but I'd rather have five minutes of mischievously sultry indie pop than 5
seconds of most of the other things gracing the airwaves at the moment so who am I to split hairs!?
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