Shuffle - Listen Love (Bloodlust)
4/5
By: Alex Lee Thomson
Not Shuffle's strongest track but nonetheless vehemently exciting, this tale of bad dates with neurotic women finds our band of unconventional music-mixers glowing as vintage samples lay across techno beats and hip-hop sympathetic sonatas to create another song that leaves you thinking, "what the f*ck was that?"
For all those people bitching that 2007 has been about nothing but radio-friendly indie pop, this has to be the next band you listen to, if for no other reason than to refurbish your faith that people are still trying new stuff out there, being audacious, and pulling it off. You can be off-the-wall and still make a classic tune, mad with reason, and when Shuffle apply themselves, experimenting with rhythms and genres and an ethos of reinvention, they can make it seem so effortless to be so pioneering. The chances are you will listen to this and wonder what the heck it is, but you'll still be breaking your neck around it in months to come when most other songs being released in November have long since been reduced to dancefloor memories.
The vocal sounds mature while the samples and drums sew a design of fun rock n roll with the liberation of jazz. This song could open your ears to a lot of new sounds that normally you wouldn't approach and while this isn't the band at their best, it's still far more significant to UK music than any three minute happy-clapping indie dance song that exists only to milk a chorus for as long as possible. Shuffle are confidently one of the most important outfits in music today as while the industry is eating itself from the inside out, they're making bold avant-garde songs that defy categorization but command honour on their own back.
We defy you to call this average.
Watch the video to 'Listen Love' on Rockfeedback HERE.
Artists in this article: Shuffle
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