Electric Picnic 2011 - Spilly Walker
Body and Soul, Saturday 3rd September, 7.15pm
Describe in a Tweet: Synthtastic brothers get us grooving.
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This performance was somewhat of a slow burner, but when it kicks off it hits the higher gears seamlessly. A guest appearance from Katie Kim sparks the touch paper, providing another voice in the mix and bringing the first relatively upbeat track to our attention, but it's You'll Never Meet A Guy Like Me Again that really gets things going. Simple refrains endlessly repeated, glitchy synths and basslines that aren't overwhelming but certainly noticeable have the previously ambivalent crowd dancing at the front. From then on we're hooked: finale Rock Your Body lasts for more than seven glorious minutes as we dance our way into the early evening. With an album allegedly coming out in late 2011 they're ones to watch: a perfect mixture of vintage ideas and new thinking.
Swoon: Katie Kim's collaboration on If We Could Ever Fall In Love was a nice change. Both brothers have fairly similar voices and a female vocal brought a little life into proceedings.
Funeral: It's a little one dimensional, but we're having ridiculous amounts of fun nonetheless.
EP rating: 8/10
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