Matthew Adam Hart could play a fine Owen Ashworth line in electro-indie melancholy – the ingredients are all there for such a career. Bunch o’ bleepin’ machines as instruments, housed within a man’s bedroom? Check. A collection of accessible and damn-near immediate songs, despite their maker’ apparently below-the-radar status? Check. Decent crack at beard growth? Check. So, ears are dealt a slight surprise – spot the understatement – when The Russian Futurists’ ‘Paul Simon’ explodes in a snap, crackle and pop of candy-coated microchips and grab-your-partner electro pulses.
Hart is TRF’s heart, but his vocals – softly delivered and slightly mumbled, vaguely plaintive when heard with a selective ear – are absolutely buried here (unlike those of Casiotone's Ashworth), beneath layers of sizzling modern pop riffs and a joyous, bouncing bassline that could switch from a cheesy Euro house chart smash to a prog-rockin’ behemoth of a song with such ease that isolating its simplistic excellence just spins the mind into a dizzied mess. ‘Paul Simon’ is the sound of Beck in his funkiest pants dozily reworking The Go! Team, The Postal Service showering e’ed-up Shamen ravers in party poppers and handing about doggy bags full of acid-laced balloons. It’s the Specsavers-frequenting employees of your IT department letting themselves go with scant regard for crashing servers. It’s freakin’ brilliant.
Summary? A summery YEAH! that’s as dour as a picnic with the Lucky Charms leprechaun.

the lucky charms leprechaun
is a bruiser and a brawler and not to be trusted.
Otherwise, sounds groovy.
weird
this has been out in the states for AGES
good to see it's making it's way over there as it's really really awesome
there's a compilation album coming out here...
...as the 'first' album.
this really is a beauty of a track.