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Friday December 4, 2009
–JAMES Cecil, pictured, formerly the backbone of Architecture in Helsinki, local kids made good internationally, is now fronting Super Melody. On the basis of Champagne Glass (Rating: 4/5), the lead track from the group's first EP, he deserves the spotlight. Opening with cushioned percussion and dubbed-out bass, the track combines studio smarts and a live dynamic, with Cecil as the addled narrator offering wisdom only he can. Pay close attention to them next year.–ON S.T.T.S.M.C. (Somebody Tried to Steal My Car) (Rating: 3/5), Berlin's Super700 make panoramic pop that repeatedly circles back to the personal, whether via a handful of minor key notes that tangle up the melody or a lyric, from vocalist Ibadet Ramadani, that punctures everyday anomie with passion, anger and €” per Ramadani's Albanian heritage €” migrants' struggle to hold their own.–TWO years after a debut album of grandiloquent psychedelic pop, Sydney's Richard In Your Mind have re-emerged as cosmic dilettantes with the somnambulant hip-hop of Make It Chill (Rating: 3.5/5). It begins as a melding of D.A.I.S.Y. Age De La Soul and classic-era Beck but it has a pesky, unhinged demeanour that makes it altogether more curious.
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