i heart alphabeat,

these guys have properly grabbed me. at first i thought it was just be and a couple of other idiots wearing our guilty pleasures on our sleeve but it turns out alphabeat have had the same effect as high school musical, unashamed, campy, catchy pop. to say i was startled at the observer awarding their debut "this is alphabeat" five stars in their music monthly today would be putting it very fucking lightly. but it retrospect maybe it's not that surprising. we're now in an age where it's not frowned upon to like something just a bit mainstream, it's almost passé to be passé, not cool to call something that's so honest and comfortable with what it is not cool.

the mixture or male and female lead vocal duties is straight out of the disney renaissance but their skilled pop crafstmanship is anything but new. they've delved into the golden era pop archives and brought back high brow pop, and back it up with genuine musical ability and a "we are what we are and if they don't like us fuck em", it's refreshing to see a chart act that aren't trying to be anything else (yeah mika tried the whole charade last year but the small fact that he's a prat got in the way).

this is probably the closest thing i'm going to get to gay-pride, damn right i like alphabeat, whose got a problem? okay enough of the melodrama, here's their two singles, in mp3 and video format, and a genius cover of daft punk's "digital love":

download: alphabeat - digital love
[technical problem, should be up soon]



download: alphabeat - fascination



those chord progressions! that vocal overlapping! heaven! and i just excitedly watched "i'd do anything about an hour ago, my manhood's lying shattered on the floor.