The Pleasures Of Night Are Reaching So High

Fox “S-s-single Bed” – I can find no fault in this song. It is perfect. It could be the sexiest, most playful disco/glam song that I’ve ever heard (and that’s saying a lot). I can’t even think about this song in any terms other than gushing praise and hyperbole. I don’t know very much about Fox other than that they had some limited UK chart success in the mid 70s before punk and new wave came along, and that “S-s-single Bed” was their biggest hit. The band was led by Noosha Fox, a striking Australian woman with a distinctive voice fairly similar to that of Macy Gray. This song is hopelessly out of print, though it was recently reissued on a limited edition compilation titled Clap Your Hands, Stamp Your Feet: More Junk Shop Glam which is apparently unavailable for purchase anywhere online. (Click here to buy it used from Amazon UK.)

Chungking “We Love You” – This starts off sounding a bit like a less gloomy and oppressive Portishead torch song, but once the chorus kicks in, it’s like some kind of a neon glam cabaret number from heaven. Unsurprisingly, Chungking hail from Brighton, which increasingly seems like the center of the UK indie universe. (Click here to buy it from Amazon.)