single // You're So Good For Me
'You're So Good For Me', the first new music from
Inspiral Carpets since 1994's Devil Hopping
finds Stephen Holt rejoining the band as lead vocalist,
replacing Tom Hingley who for one reason or another
parted company with the band earlier this year. Holt was vocalist
on the Inspirals' first recordings, from well before Life,
their 1990 debut album. In quick succession, Cow Records
was reformed, a tour was announced, and in November 2011 a new single
arrived on iTunes. These are exciting times.
'You're So Good For Me' brought a smile to this
reviewer's face from the opening organ groove. Having trawled back
through the Inspiral's back catalogue recently, that interplay between
Clint Boon's Farfisa organ, Graham Lambert's
manic guitar, Martyn Walsh's sludgy bass and Craig
Gill's hammered drums was always a thrilling combination
and from the off this perfunctory, wild piece of acid freak rock
abandon sounds as timeless as anything the band did with Hingley.
And Holt's vocal delivery is fantastically strident, soulful and
intense with a bit of Ian Curtis-style darkness for good measure.
The track is backed with a new recording of 'Head
For The Sun', a track on the four-song Cow cassette from
1987 (that cassette's Sixties-inspired sleeve also provides the
basis for the digital sleeve for this single). The song featuring
lots of 'bah-bah-bah' backing vocals, frantic instruments and what
could very well be Michael Stipe guesting in the background. It's
not, and REM never managed anything so gleefully motorik, even at
their peak. A nice bit of viznyl crackle heralds and closes out
the track, a neat two fingers to digitalism's uniformity.
dl:
1. You're So Good For Me
2. Head For The Sun (2011 Re-recording)
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