"Droppin" and "Roll Call" intricately chronicle Leikeli47's family life and the legacy of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. This situation was one inspiration for Leikeli47, who parsed out the racially charged nuance of it throughout the album, while paying homage to the beauty ritual of Black women, specifically, finding solidarity in a place where the smell of acrylic nail polish can establish a sense of home (see: "Walk-Ins Welcome" and the album's title track). Earlier this summer, there was a horrifying incident in a Flatbush nail salon, that involved the Asian owners physically assaulting Black customers after accusing them of theft. But from its richly layered concept to its speaker-rattling production, Acrylic has already made an impact on us. , an urgent and expansive kind of rocker – a win which will hopefully offer the band suitable consolation while illness has temporarily forced them off the road.Leikeli47, the mysterious New York rapper who once made a song all about her "Attitude," dropped her latest album Acrylic only a few weeks ago.Instead, top prize goes to The Hold Steady’s ‘Stay Positive’ (Rough Trade) , on account of the fact it's more or less interchangeable with the rest of Alex Turner and Miles Kane's excellent Scott Walker phase.So it's a two-horse race for Single of the Fortnight this time, and just being pipped at the post are The Last Shadow Puppets with ‘My Mistakes Were Made For You’ (Domino) and, dare it be said, the gauche but somehow utterly pop-attuned new ravers Late of the Pier with ‘Bathroom Gurgle’ (Parlophone).Much more attention-grabbing is the lithe minimalism of US hip hoppers The Cool Kids’ ‘Mikey Rocks’ (XL) is fairly flaccid urban soul, which only the inclusion of a Hot Chip remix on the flipside can rescue.His new track ‘Let the Spirit’ (Big Dada) Not so Rodney Smith, aka Roots Manuva, the one-time biggest hope for UK hip hop. Sold, say malcontent housewives across the land! Much more exciting within the field of quirky female singer-songwriterliness is Lykke Li, the Swedish vocalist whose ‘Little Bit’ (Atlantic) , which rather cannily sounds very much like Norah Jones' 'Don't Know Why'.Įlsewhere, Adele is going straight for the heart of the coffee table blues circuit with ‘Make You Feel My Love’ (XL) They do have more polish than Edinburgh's pleasantly indiefied Kid Canaveral though, who provide a decent effort in ‘Second Time Around/Missing Me’ (Straight to Video) This bunch are well worth the benefit of the doubt, although the trick could get old very soon.
is long on saxophone, tin pan percussion and ranty Tom Waits vocalising.looks like sending the jury out for a long deliberation.Īnother Scots bunch it's hard to get a handle on are Glasgow's Punch and the Apostles, whose new double A-side ‘I’m a Hobo/Can of Beans’ (Lucky Number Nine).Sad to say, the rowdy but slight jangle of ‘5 Rebbeccas’ (1965) delivering an underwhelming second album thereby massaging the feeling that all your early promise was based on one good song. The challenge for The View is to avoid ‘doing a Fratellis’, i.e.
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