Likeably rambunctious, Glasgow’s Sons And Daughters’ latest might lift a trick or two from a certain grizzled punk – think Trainspotting if you’re struggling – but it’s a stomping good tune nonetheless. Besides, since when did hundred per dent originality equal a decent single?
Bernard Butler’s production lends this cut from the four-piece’s forthcoming This Gift LP a swinging longevity, with Adele Bethal’s breathy vocals lingering long after the final whack of stick on skin from Dave Gow, whose unfussy and direct percussion lends this single its insistent tone.
Someone in the DiS office compared ‘Darling’ to something by Shakespeare’s Sister, but while both acts possess a certain menace beneath their glossy pop outer layers, Sons And Daughters’ lusty tempestuousness lifts them heads, at least, above so many pan-flash chart-toppers.
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I really like this song
But that video might actually be rubbish.
Shakespeares Sister??
Hardly...they share more with Howling Bells...
Not ground breaking, but very good catchy songs!
For me, this sure isn't as good
as their last single...
gosh
this is pretty dull/lacking in edge
they were one of the best things at Reading a few years back, noisy, bit menacing, this just sounds like the long blondes or something
two words I never thought could be in the same breath...
Gosh and menacing??
:)
Just heard this
It made me stop what I was doing. Very good indeed.
i bought this today
and the vinyl doesnt work. fucking shite
Stop it.
Well you know, i think after 3 albums that it's just not going to happen for this band. It's the same old same old, the singing is awful, the band look like someone shot a fashion gun at them and they couldn't get out the way, the stage show is pure histrionics from the singer (who cannot sing) and the interviews I've read with them are plain cringeworthy. It just seems so desperate too.... January release for the singles chart, getting a big producer to try and change the direction when the formula wasn't working. Oh yeah and about a thousand versions of the new single, some of them for a pound! A pound! Let's get in the charts! Sons and Daughters, it's time to stop and go back to whatever you did before your record company "discovered" you.
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harsh
Simon Cowell
I'm just stating the painful truth a la Simon Cowell. My older brother who really likes Sons and Daughters tells me that their single went to number 87 and even he wasn't surprised. He's not into the new stuff either. I'd imagine their record company will be rid of them after this desperately bad performance and no wonder!
Anyway, i suppose it is a shame that another Scottish band has died a death. I'm a Scot myself and it would have been nice to have another good band in the charts but just not this band.