Glasvegas: 'Daddy's Gone'

Released on Monday, Aug 25 2008

Published Thursday, Aug 14 2008, 13:22 BST | By Alex Fletcher | 2 comments

It's a sign of Glasvegas's blossoming greatness that 'Daddy's Gone', a track that was ranked in NME's Best of 2007 list, can be re-released in August 2008 and still sound as fresh and thrilling as when it first surfaced. While many fans will be clamouring for new material from the Glaswegians - their debut LP lands September 8 - for now, we'll have to be content with a few more spins of this brooding beast of a single.

Showcasing the group's fascinating mixture of '50s doo-wop and Jesus And Mary Chain-style thundering guitars, 'Daddy's Gone' is very much the band's calling card. There are gorgeous "ay-ay-ay" harmonies, plenty of chest-beating vocal crescendos and it's all underpinned by a heart-wrenchingly earnest tale of absent fathers. Truly magnificent stuff that really whets our appetite for the album.

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Robin, Essex, on September 12th, 2008
Daddy's Gone is a song which sounds like a soundtrack to a great film. Good luck to them!!

Benni, Lancaster, on August 28th, 2008
Why is it that when a band are hyped by the NME everybody else jumps on the bandwagon? All Glasvegas songs sound the same. Each one is too similar to the next it's unreal. Daddy's Gone, Geraldine, It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry and even their cover of The Ronettes' Be My Baby all sound identical. Someone take away their Jesus and the Marychain records and make them write a song that doesn't sound like ALL their other songs.