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Little Boots – Love Kills
A lady by the name of Little Boots (really Victoria Hesketh but hey) is apparently one of the great new hopes for music in 2009, having come second in the BRITs critics choice for 2009 and also having hit the top spot in the BBC “Sound of 2009″ series.
Now such accolades are usually guaranteed to make me roll my eyes and expect some standard dire singer-songwriter whose label is pretending is fresh and ungroomed and so on and will, therefore, be putting out miserable soul-lite or underproduced pap.
But blimey… she’s good. Stunningly pretty (both vocally and in aspect) and also impressively talented, she performed one of her songs on Later With Jools Holland by playing Stylophone, Piano and Tenori-on (see here) which is a feat I find quite impressive all told.
Frankly I would recommend downloading the whole Little Boots EP (currently ?Ǭ£1.58) because whilst the currently free “Stuck on Repeat” is good, and the Tenor-on/Piano version of “Meddle” is cool, the highlight is definitely her version of the Freddie Mercury/Giorgio Moroder classic “Love Kills”.
Originally from the electronic soundtrack Moroder did for the classic film Metropolis in 1984, the original is fantastic, but Little Boots’ version is bang up to date and astonishingly lovely.
I listened to practically nothing else on the way in to work today.
Posted on January 8, 2009 | Filed Under Pop Music
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