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Ou Est Le Swimming Pool - Dance The Way I Feel [7"]

Ou Est Le Swimming Pool - Dance The Way I Feel [7"]

Young & Lost Club

My third foray into the Young and Lost singles club this week sees me tackling some rather infectious electro-pop in the shape of the curiously named 'Ou Est Le Swimming Pool.' It's pretty damn catchy I'll say that much, with a chorus hook which should ear-mark it as a future indie disco classic. It's the kind of song which doesn't stand up well to over analysis with it's straight-laced, metronomic beat, dated keyboards (that sound like they were pulled right out of Neil Tennants arse) and overly glossy production. But this is not a song written to be analysed or mused over, it's a song written for the dance-floor and it would be tremendously callous of me to review it in any other way.

It's easy to wax lyrical about this countries current nostalgia trip and to forget that fads can sometimes actually nurture some great bands (if it wasn't for the 70's guitar rock resurgence spearheaded by The Strokes we'd never have Arctic Monkeys) and from this evidence 'Ou Est Le Swimming Pool' have the potential to be a great, fun, pop band. They may lack the slight melancholy of MGMT and the art-house stylings of The Rapture but there should be a place in any music fans record collection for a track this unapologetically fun.

Ou Est Le Swimming Pool are the fresh, credible alternative to the poncy, boring nostalgia offered to us by the mainstream (that's right La Roux I'm looking at you!)




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