Let’s go for a twofer, shall we? As you recall I last said that Ambulance Ltd. were an unwitting guilty pleasure because of the inescapable poppiness of their songs. From the same LP as the last I give you ‘Sugar Pill’. A fantastic song with a hoo…
Let’s go for a twofer, shall we?
As you recall I last said that Ambulance Ltd. were an unwitting guilty pleasure because of the inescapable poppiness of their songs. From the same LP as the last I give you ‘Sugar Pill’. A fantastic song with a hook that eluded me for months till a eureka moment last week pinned it atop the Cardigans‘ ‘Erase/Rewind’.
Pop!
I’ve been on a bit of an Ambulance Ltd. kick lately. They’re not exactly a heavyweight band, but they still fall in my Guilty Pleasure Zone. I called them mindiegaze for the mainstream-indie-rock sensibilities that colour each of their songs. Take…
Take for example, the first track on their LP… a song called ‘Heavy
Lifting’. Its remarkable similarity to the second-most mainstream
indie-band in the world (The Flaming Lips) ‘s most mainstream
song (‘Do You Realise??’) is unmistakable.
