Begging Me has been out and about for a fair old while now, and it's a slab of seductive pop perfection, complimented by pinched harmonics and the unflappable nonchalance of every celebrated pop paragon, smeared in the indelibility inherent of every unforgettable pop hook from Erasure's Always to Nicola Roberts' Beat Of My Drum. It's pop basically, and pop to have Victoria Hesketh cowering behind that ill-advised Urban Outfitters-inspired mythological imagery until the equally ill-advised Dead Disco reunion tour.
Experimenting With Rugs by Florrie
Experimenting With Rugs meanwhile, lifted from the very same aforementioned extended-play, is bizarrely reminiscent of Milanese "sisters" Paola e Chiara's unabashedly euphoric Festival LP of 2002. In many a mind that'd be a particularly damning critique, yet the eponymous track from the siblings' schmaltzfest soundtracked more than just the one summer, and still holds a (relatively) special place in my iPod, if not heart. It's Europhoric, shatters the unfathomable-to-radio five minute boundary, and there's even a guitar interlude that sounds like the only palatable Editors track (the allegorical one about the rat race). Except it's infinitely superior to that, just as it's infinitely superior to nigh on the entirety of this weekend's Isle Of Wight Festival line up, where she should indubitably be appearing.
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