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Sandi Thom: 'The Devil's Beat'
Released on Monday, May 19 2008
Published Friday, May 9 2008, 19:26 BST | By Alex Fletcher | 10 comments
'The Pink and The Lily LP'
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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Well done Sandi, great song from a very talented artist..
A breath of fresh air in the charts after weeks of money - churning artists
Amazing song!!
Seriously, why hasn't she quit trying to be a popstar? Just terrible.
Whenever I see the name Alex Fletcher above a review I always skip to the reader comments. I skip there to see how many actual fans of music he has annoyed with his clearly jaded and biased reviews of songs that would have been best left to someone with a little tact and musical diversity. We hear the same old comparrisons every time he reviews and yet he remains on the digital spy payroll, I can only assume that he is related to someone higher up the chain of command, or sleeping with one of them! This song by the way, shows a real intelligence yet maintains Sandi's musical dignity with genius uncontrived guitar riffs and fabulously disjointed percussion, proof that Sandi is able to write throw away catchy "pop" (punk rocker) and this, a classic piece of current sounding music with a meaning, ballads are hard to write (why else do you think they're usually about the same thing, love?).....oh Alex just so that you know a ballad is a song that tells a story, not just the Whitney/Mariah stuff (which again I like, but then my tastes are more ecclectic than just a hand full of privately educated 20 something year olds buying some instruments and creating an "indie" band) that you generally use as negative comparrison.
I actually really like this song, surprising because I hated har old stuff
Pre-fab fluff.
Seriously when i first heard Sandi's debut single i thought it could be so boring. But when i heard it a few times it was catchy and fun. Now with this single coming out. I've heard it in Youtube and it's fabulous. It's shouldn't be 2 stars, it should be 5 because she's talking about globle warming and it's in a song which really interests me!
This reviewer must be a massive Muse fan, which is cool each to his own, but why is he judging a Sandi Thom record? He's bound not to like it! From the Over produced Rock opera of Muse, to the New Orleans stylings of this record, there is quite a difference. I heard the on radio 2 a couple of weeks ago and think it's one of the best pop records i've heard all year, catchy, jaunty and a bit left field. It's nice to hear something fresh every once in a while.
Well, the sales of this one proved how "great" it is, absolute mindless pap as is all of her material. interesting to note that already she is going on about how good her 3rd album will be when her second just came out in may and lasted a wondeful 1 week in the top 50. No wonder the boyfriend wont pop the question luv, he knows a sinking ship when he sees one.