A Boy Who Found The New Sound

The Victorian English Gentlemens Club “La Mer” – Not a Debussy cover! It’s a punk song, and a fine example of how no one on earth can convey disaffected contempt better than female British punk rockers. The lead singer on this track sounds as though her voice has been filed down into a blunt shiv, and it stabs the deepest when she’s not even forming words — da, da da, da da, da da da! Come to think of it, everything in the song seems to either made of sharp edges, or set at severe angles. (Click here to buy it from Norman Records.)

Elsewhere: My new Hit Refresh column is up on the ASAP site with mp3s from Lee Perry, Caroline Peyton, and the Michael Garrick Trio.

Also: “There are a handful of ancient, immutable laws, written in stardust across the heavens, and one of them is that if you find yourself dating a porn star, you don’t cut and run at the first sign of trouble. No: you dig in, do the heavy lifting, and make the relationship work.”