For those amongst you that can remember uploading any fresh musical produce onto Myspace (amongst those that can still recall the now largely superfluous multimedia monstrosity that was and unfortunately still is at all) may well recollect one of many fabricated genres: Melodramatic Popular Song. Bash it into Google and you'll see Stars, and the stylistic categorisation can be applied too to London-based newcomers Red Kite. Equally as melodramatic as their Canadian counterparts, it's surely merely a matter of time (and not much of it) before Montreal, their first release to bob up to the surface of the www (since preliminary recordings from earlier on in the year were surreptitiously removed from the Soundcloud) becomes inconceivably popular. Lyrically, it's heart-splintering, a soaring chorus ("Stay close to me/ Oh stay close to me/ I've got your back this time") curling up and crawling into your heart. Lead vocalist Daniel Fisher is in possession of a Brian Molko-like voice that the Placebo man would quite possibly sign away all future royalties to have stuck back down his aged windpipe, and with Ben Gautrey playing in midfield for Ashridge Park F.C., it's the once-member of the tragically now-defunct The Cooper Temple Clause that's still singing who's winning... Montreal by Red Kite_Band
