The most apt comparisons, though, are inventive groups like Hot Chip and Metronomy, both of whom Stealing Sheep are currently eclipsing with this record. The songs are great too, with "Back in Time," "Show Love" and "Why Haven't I" evoking everything from ABBA to Bananarama to Wendy & Bonnie. There's also a lot of synth steel drum and arpeggiated keyboard lines that swirl around like dust-devil. The production and arrangements on Big Wows are bright and shiny, much like their glittering outfits on the album art, with inventive percussion pinging around the mix that is as melodic as it is beat-driven. (Reverse Pillow Fight Version) Official Music Video flaminglips 107K subscribers 211K views 10 years ago The W.A.N.D. One of the most appealing aspects of Stealing Sheep is the way Becky Hawley, Emily Lansley and Lucy Mercer all share the spotlight, taking turns singing lead but also joining forces for heavenly three-part harmonies. Reviewed: ApIndie legends' first new album in four years- widely tipped to be the group's return to a. Four years later, Stealing Sheep are back with their third album that doesn't take any drastic sonic shifts from Not Real but finds them honing their unique approach. The Flaming Lips 2006 6.7 By Mark Richardson Genre: Rock Label: Warner Bros. The transition felt organic - you could easily tell the group made both records - and Not Real was my favorite album of 2015. Liverpool trio Stealing Sheep made a huge leap from their 2012 debut, Into the Diamond Sun, to its follow-up, 2015's Not Real, going from charmingly quirky folk to kitchen sink dancepop. Wallowing in the gutter can be fun, for a day or two, but Serfs Up proves strychnine is better served dipped in chocolate. "Oh Sebastian" even has a string section and Baxter Dury shows up on "Tastes Good with the Money." Lyrically, however, not much has changed - it's still hyperliterate shock and awe, with tales of toxic masculinity, dating prostitutes, the apocalypse, vagina dentata, and the kind of sickos usually only seen in David Lynch movies (see "When I Leave"). The record pulls you in immediately with "Feet," the closest they've ever come to pop, with its sleek electro-glam engine, and keeps you humming with Saul's "I Believe in Something Better," the deteriorated funk of "Kim's Sunsets" (about Kim Jong-Un) and "Fringe Runner" which is Fat White Family's take on early-'80s NYC electro (complete with a Liquid Liquid bassline and sampled orchestra stabs). Mind you, you can't wash off what Fat White Family have got, but their brand of filth has been made presentable and palatable enough that most won't realize what they're really getting before it's too late. (Pulp made a career of its mundanity.) Serfs Up! is not only their best, but also their most commercial sounding record to date. The band wisely decided to escape from London and its easy access to everything and decamped to Sheffield where there's nowhere near as much to do.
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