Rosie & The Goldbug

by Lisa Holmes

Hip pop

"Crashing piano chords feature on the totally addictive ‘Butterfly’, which will be a new addition to the Radio 1 playlist just mark our words."

If Debbie Harry wasn’t too busy having her face stretched she’d realise that the quickest way to regain her youth would be to join Rosie and co on stage pounding out the kind of classic glam pop that Blondie did so well.

Rosie isn’t blonde but she is from Cornwall; bass player Pixie is her sister’s boyfriend and female drummer Plums is formerly of Japanese drumming group Kagemusha Taiko. The trio make glorious pop with all the bells and whistles you’d expect, plus a few extras.

Crashing piano chords feature on the totally addictive ‘Butterfly’, which will be a new addition to the Radio 1 playlist just mark our words. Then there is the fierce female vocal that is in part Karen O’s primal yowling and part Debbie Harry’s belting glamazonia. Let’s just say it is way better than Katy Perry.

Live, the band cover Duran Duran and the album shares co-writing credits with Marcella Detroit of Shakespeare’s Sister (no shortage of drama there then!) and Glasgow legends El Presidente who collaborated on the pop smash ‘You’ve Changed.’ If Kylie had sung it there is no way it wouldn’t have been number one, it is ridiculously eighties and ridiculously contagious, therefore if by any chance the band doesn’t make it big they could probably bash out a lucrative song writing career.

From kick ass chorus’ on, like, every song, great piano backed falsetto, plenty of uh-oh’s and some Shirley Manson attitude, instead of ‘Stupid Girl’ Rosie has ‘Strange Girl’, as well as the pouting power ballad ‘In The Red’ – Kelly Clarkson should takes notes.

Hopefully, in a year's time people won’t want to listen to this album any more because they’ve played it to death. That would mean there is a small smidgen of hope in Britain’s pop wilderness and some of the impending winter gloom will be swept away. Guilty pleasures – absolutely, but watch them turn to gold.

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