THE 7″ LUCKY DIP (7)

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Yup.  It’s come out in the 7″ lucky dip.   I wrote about it in October 2013.  I’m more than happy to cut’n’paste as I can’t really better what was said at the time.

When Barney met Johnny, and they team up with Neil.  Proof that supergroups sometimes do work:-

mp3 : Electronic – Getting Away With It

The debut single. Hugely anticipated on release, it didn’t disappoint.  Reviews were almost universally and deservedly positive:-

NME  :  “The most complete pop record of the week, by an infinite margin… A lovely airy melody drifts in and out of the song; gently weighted with obtuse, lovelorn one-liners… The record somehow manages to be much more than the sum of its parts and stubbornly refuses to give up its element of mystery”

Sounds :  “It’s nothing shocking, nothing that surprising, it’s just that every time you think you’re tired of it you can’t help flipping back the stylus to catch that chorus”.

Over the next decade or so, Electronic would write and record some brilliant dance music with some of the best guitar work that Johnny Marr ever laid down.  But they never again got as close again to the sound of Italian House that was all the rage for a while at the end of the 80s.

The orchestral arrangement came courtesy of Anne Dudley of The Art Of Noise.

The b-side is total house music and was for a number of years uses as the theme tune for a football highlights programme here in Scotland:-

mp3 : Electronic – Lucky Bag (edit)

A #12 hit in the UK.

JC

5 thoughts on “THE 7″ LUCKY DIP (7)

  1. I’m only getting into them properly now but what a great band they were. If you knew nothing about their other work they’d still be a fascinating proposition

  2. Thanks Anon.

    I originally linked to the wrong file. It’s now been replaced by the 7″ edit.

    Appreciated.

    JC

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