Unlike most middle class white boys, I don’t wish Charlie Brooker was my BFF who came to my house every Wednesday to play computer games with me until the sexual tension got too much and we hooked the vibrating pads to our groins and blissed out to the final level of Halo in a haze of exploding aliens and spunk. I’m not into that. But I did read something on his blog this week that I identified with.
You can click on that link yourself, but to summarise, Brooker was moaning about the difficulty in choosing what culture to consume when there’s so much available to select from. I’m sure there are probably worse things in the world, but I can relate to that problem, especially with regards music. There are more ridiculous genres now than ever before in the history of music – post pop shit gaze afrobeat nofi glitchcore ghettotech ghoststep crabcore, and that’s just the new Editors album (jokes). Read Pitchfork for more than two minutes and you’ll be yearning for eternal silence. Or just really confused.
Either way, it can become a bit of a drag, because, you know, sometimes all you want is a simple song. Don’t worry, it’s OK, you’re not a backwards-looking Tory for thinking that. We all have those moments and it’s what Tap Tap‘s “Queen of Hearts” is designed perfectly for. Chiming guitars,marching band drums, melancholic vocals and a little bit of lost love: it’s an age old recipe that becomes vintage instead of dated. It might not be the most glamorous sound, but it’s the kind of song that gets the girl. There’s little more you could ask for.
Tap Tap – “Queen of Hearts”
Btw, if you’re thinking this sounds a lot like Pete and the Pirates, then that’s because it is (well, the singer Thomas Sanders anyway). Well done, Wycliffe.
Stolen are launching the album – On My Way – from which this song is taken at the Lexington tonight. Check the poster below for more details.
