Sandi Thom: 'The Devil's Beat'

When Sandi Thom revealed that her new single was inspired by watching the Star Wars movies, it had many of us scratching our heads. Could Thom, with her placid, Radio 2-friendly acoustic bumblings, really have produced a Muse-style space-prog odyssey about the antics of C-3PO and Chewbacca? Thankfully for fans of the '70s sci-fi blockbuster, this song isn't really a Star Wars tribute.

Instead Thom's served up a rather dull treatise on the state of the world. It's all about the forces of good and evil being balanced wrongly, apparently! While it's refreshing for someone of Thom's record-selling capabilities to be tackling subjects as serious as the War in Iraq, her political musings ("Bank tills are ringing to the tune of war") offer little in the way of revelation. The jaunty guitars, tip-tapping drumsticks and parping brass section, though decent fun, can't save this single from the depths of mediocrity.


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