The Boy With The Thorn In His Side

I’ve posted about the wonderful Manchester trio Performance pretty steadily the last few months.  I believe this lot are onto something and I firmly stand behind them in their quest to restore intelligently crafted pop to the top of the pops. This is exactly why I deem it necessary to post a banging reinterpretation of the new single Unconsoled reworked by house maestro Tom Staar who has previously done work for the likes of Basement Jaxx and Fenech-Soler, to name a couple. Turn out the lights, close your eyes and bounce to this.

Performance – Unconsoled – Tom Staar remix by WorkItMedia

It was only a couple of days ago when I posted the song and now I present the video right off the presses! It’s Stop & Stare by Fenech- Soler. Great song to begin with and the video simply adds to the fun! Never a bad thing to set the stage for a great song in Paris, the city of romance. This just makes me love the song even more. What do you guys think? Ever find that the video for a single helps you to enjoy a particular song after previously waving it off? Strange…

Remember! If you’re in the New York City area, the lads play at Pianos on Monday, the 15th at 11pm! Charming…

It’s interesting how the electronic pop resurgence has started to evolve. In the beginning of the last decade, we had electroclash which was basically a lazy rewrite of anything from 1979-1981 featuring bad vocals, bad clothes and even worse songs. Fast forward from there and slowly but surely, the songs, production and overall presentation got a whole lot better as the focus sharpened largely in part to the bands getting serious about their craft.  Today,  the assault on the mainstream is well underway as quality bands seem to reveal themselves every week. Of course, the majority of them are coming from Europe as America once again plays catch-up. One such new act comes to us from the north of London called Fenech-Soler.

Already with a couple of singles under their belt, the band made up of brothers Ben & Russ Duffy along with Dan Soler and Andrew Lindsay, are putting the pop world on notice with their glimmering brand of electro. Their latest creation is a simply wonderful slice of new wave heaven called Stop And Stare.  Clean production and dramatic crescendos are what grabbed my attention on this track. If I had to compare what I’ve heard from Fenech-Soler to any of the new breed we’ve been hearing especially in the last year, I would have to say they remind me a bit of Delphic as they share a similar polished sound though Fenech-Soler are a bit more upbeat and groovier.

Just another one to watch in 2010…It’s a great year thus year, wouldn’t you say?

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“Stop And Stare” by Fenech-Soler