By Marke B.
The Guardian‘s Year in Music issue doesn’t come out for a couple weeks, but I’m getting my musical top 10 of 2008 (clubswise) list ready — check out last year’s here — and I’m pretty sure the loves of my musical life for the past two months will be on it: Clubfeet, a golden trio from Australia, where most great dance-ish music seems to come from. OK, it’s not too dance-ish, maybe (although look for the slew of banger remixes to follow), but the tuneful coupling of innocently cynical sentiment with absolutely beautiful production is a marvel that has me skipping around in my undies. Check out Clubfeet’s album Gold on Gold (Plant Music — available on iTunes etc.) and get ready to sing a long ….
Below, the vids for “Teenage Suicide” (if you don’t get the reference, then I fear for your Gen-X soul) and the gorgeous “DIE Yuppie Scum” which puts me in mind of Stephen Duffy/Tin Tin, especially the vocals. And I will bestow a million kisses on the first DJ here to play them …
Clubfeet, “Teenage Suicide”
Clubfeet, “DIE Yuppie Scum”