ALI INGLE – SINGLE REVIEW
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| Ali Ingle - Saintly/Kool Aid |
Ali Ingle – Saintly/Kool Aid
Release Date: Out Now
One of Liverpool’s unsung musical
heroes, Ali Ingle, is back with not one but two new tracks – a bold move by
anyone’s standards. The first of these, ‘Saintly’ comes with a superbly retro
video (and moustache) which stands at odds with the melancholy lo-fi
electronica that Ingle’s smooth vocal lays across, luxuriously and yet in a
depressive stupor. What I love about this track is that without the video you
could be forgiven this was a po-faced East London bedroom electro fodder. That
said, with the video, this has it’s tongue firmly in its cheek although the
sentiment still remains beautifully pure.
‘Kool Aid’ is the second part of
this brace and is a far livelier affair on all sides. With that lo-fi electro
vibe kicking back in, Ingle shifts up through the gears until this feels like
the montage music from some early 80s coming of age film (I’m thinking ‘D.A.R.Y.L.’).
This is uplifting, optimistic and insistent stuff that pairs the lightness of
the intermingling synths with vocals that are somewhere between Brandon Flowers
and David Kitt which is an intriguing and entirely enjoyable space to occupy. There
is a thread of commonality between these tunes which is the excellent song writing
and melancholic underbelly but if these two songs were personified in a movie
they would be the lead characters from Twins.
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