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Ikara Colt: Modern Feeling

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by Mike Diver
Okay, I confess: I have a stack of wrinkled-up pictures of Ikara Colt bassist Tracey under my bed for evenings when the girlfriend’s away*. I’m not proud, but please, put that admission to one side for just one second and read this: this song is really good. No, really, it is. I know you’ve got the excellent album of a similar name and that you’ve heard this song already and you’ve seen the band three times in the last three months and they played it every time but STOP. Please. What’s the best way to earn a buck from an existing customer? Alter the product of course. Or, in this case, release a remix.

Given the once-over by Niklas Flyckt, also responsible for Rachel Stevens’ ‘LA Ex’ and Britney’s single of the year (I ain’t even shittin’ you) ‘Toxic’, ‘Modern Feeling’ comes on like Now That’s What I Call Miserable Indie Rock 1982 fast-forwarded through time Buck Rogers style. It’s so slick you could catch cormorants in it. It struts like a catwalk model and pouts like Leslie Ash. It’s moodier than David Beckham when Posh packs him off to bed without dinner for not wiping his bottom properly.

Long story short: listening to this is more a gratifying experience than leafing through a ragged pile of cutouts from the pages of the indie-rock press. Plus, you can always wipe a CD clean again…

*This isn't really true. Check if you want...

  • Ikara Colt 8 / 10

Ikara Colt - Modern Feeling

isn't the album called 'modern apprentice'?

Re: Ikara Colt - Modern Feeling

Yes.
DAMN.
BALLS.
*curses*
I should probably change that, eh?
M

Ikara Colt - Modern Feeling

Wouldn't the ruin the entire point of the review? Methinks a rewrite is in order...

Re: Ikara Colt - Modern Feeling

Nah, it's fine as it is now.

Ikara Colt - Modern Feeling

They were really really really, and I mean gob smackingly shit last time I saw them. Which was really disappointing. So dissappointing that I haven't got the new album yet.

Should I?

Re: Ikara Colt - Modern Feeling

They were good at Reading, and I bought the album as a result of that. And I quite like it.

Ikara Colt - Modern Feeling

<indie snob>

The first album was better.

</indie snob>

Ikara Colt - Modern Feeling

true, so true, the first album was one of the best of the decade so far.

Ikara Colt - Modern Feeling

the first album was very good.
this song is utter shite and the accompanying video is one of the worst things i've ever seen.

Ikara Colt - Modern Feeling


I rather like this song actually... it reminds me of somethign but I can't put my digit on it... I'd certainly toss me derriere to this in some skanky drinking pit.