Wednesday, 19 August 2009

Errrrrr... Wow. Just wow.

There's pop music and then there's pop music. Sometimes you can talk about pop music and mean something like Hockey or Hadouken! and then other times you just mean Britney and Kylie. Kiss In Cities are definitely in the latter category - although their closest point of reference is Bananarama. No bad thing, especially since the new Bananarama single is a bit brilliant.

Words almost fail us on how incredible these two are. As well as Bananarama, there's bits of Cyndi Lauper, Mel & Kim, Fuzzbox and other brilliant old girl pop in their music. At the same time, Girls Aloud could get away with recording the songs on Kiss In Cities MySpace, or at least Girls Aloud circa-second album could have gotten away with it. There's nothing here that sounds like 'The Promise'.

Best of the brilliant bunch on their MySpace would probably be the jumpy 'Colours' and the enormous mid-tempo 'Human Remains'. It's so close to being a ballad but not quite - 'Dominoes' is closer still, it sounds a bit like T'Pau (T-BLOODY-PAU people, see, that's how good they are).

Kiss In Cities are the sort of band the BBC will be tipping for success in 2010 (if people are still listening to pop music by then). This is glam-pop at it's most brilliant. Kiss In Cities are the sort of band who make pop music worth writing about. WE LOVE THEM and think you will too.

Kiss In Cities MySpace. Amazing, amazing, amazing etc.

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