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Sing-Sing |
| Sing Sing and I |
| Aerial | 2006 | Album |
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While the arrival of Sing-Sing might have barely registered a blip on the radar of most music fans, the return of Emma Anderson was a godsend to Brit pop fans still mourning the loss of Lush. However, to those fans Sing-Sing was only a weakened substitute for the catchy hooks and coy lyrics that bounced throughout Lush’s vibrant body of work. While Anderson along with Lisa O’Neil managed to deliver the same vocal perfection seen in Lush, there never seemed to be any of the energy or lyrical wryness .
Surprisingly however, the duo’s sophomore effort Sing-Sing and I manages the revisit the sheer infectiousness seen in Lush’s pop perfection. “Lover”, the opening track sets the album off well with a catchy refrain providing showcase to O’Neil and Anderson’s vocal abilities. “Modern Girl” visits the Lush lyrical style of mixing catchy refrains alongside intellectually planned verses. “Come Sing Me A Song” resurrects the distorted AM radio sound that was the Lush trademark, only this time infused with a 60’s guitar sound.
While Sing-Sing authentically sounds like nineties era bit pop, there’s a certain over mixed, modern sheen that was lacking in the efforts of the past decade. It’s as if Anderson were looking back at her past work with the distance and reflection of a woman who was once at the heart Britain’s music scene.
Still, even for those too green to recall the masterwork of Lush, Sing-Sing and I provides smart and engaging pop needed in a music scene currently lacking a good girl group. |
| Adrienne Urbanski |
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