Today I picked up four new additions to my bargain bin CD collection, courtesy of a charity shop in Hackney. This outlet's quite vast selection featured such names as Clock (Abhorrent 90s Europop outfit responsible for awful guff such as "Whoomph! (There It Is)" and a cover of Blame It On The Boogie) and dad-rock legends Toploader. I decided to leave these two abominations on the shelf and pick up these four instead.....
- IKARA COLT - CHAT AND BUSINESS
I picked this up because I'm sure someone in the not too recent past has recommended this band to me. Ikara Colt were a London four piece specialising in jerky lo-fi art-punk and pretentious album covers which double up as mini sticker albums. They released two full-length LP's before disbanding in 2005.
One of the brightest lights in the world of UK hip-hop, Kane Robinson's 2005 debut is an experiemental take on the genre, in which Kano samples Black Sabbath classic 'War Pigs' and gets all soulful on Mike Skinner-featured 'Nite Nite' on a CD which plays as the mischevous younger brother to Dizzee Rascal's genre-defining debut Boy In Da Corner. "You can take me out of the hood, I'll still act like a criminal" vows Kano on 'Typical Me', a line which perfectly sums up the attitude of this album.
- MS DYNAMITE - A LITTLE DEEPER
Mercury Prize-winning debut from Ms Dynamite, who was a bloody big deal for a few months back in 2002. Featuring irritating nonsensical single Dy-Na-Mi-Tee and female liberation anthem Put Him Out, Dynamite never reached anything near the success of her debut CD, instead forging an alternative career as a rent-a-celeb on the reality TV circuit, although she did recently make a musical comeback of sorts as the vocal talent on DJ Zinc's 'Wile Out'.
- THE VINES - HIGHLY EVOLVED
Australian garage rockers The Vines recieved all kinds of acclaim for this, their 2001 debut LP. The Vines found themselves lumped in the lo-fi garage rock scene of the early 21st century along with The White Stripes, The Hives and The Strokes. The grunge vibe running through the album brought inevitable Nirvana comparisons, which is none more obvious than on 'In The Jungle' which almost sounds as though Kurt's passing was all a big misunderstanding and he has been moonlighting in an Australian rock & roll band all this time.
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