Long Blondes
Century (Rough Trade)
By Laura Barbour • Mar 24th, 2008 • Category:
short players
The Long Blondes’ Kate Jackson would appear to have swapped her tweed pencil skirts and berets for neon leggings and a glittery boob tube if new single ‘Century’ is anything to go by. It’s a stabbing, even menacing song in places, with some early-90s esque synthesisers providing the backdrop. There is some respite however, as Jackson chirps about “lightning bolts” which effectually pushes the record somewhat into the realm of Bananarama-like girlieness! This strangely juxtaposed structure may be alarming to ears of a delicate disposition yet (to use the dreaded staple word of today’s teenagers), is actually rather delightfully ‘random’!
Laura Barbour
