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Darren Hayman
I Taught You How To Dance 10" EP Fortuna Pop!

Article written by Paul M - Nov 3, 2011

I Taught You How To Dance EP

This is the delightful highlight from the recent delicate long player The Ship's Piano. A gently swaying ballad, delivered with Hayman's trademark wit and tenderness, it would be the ultimate Our Song in a parallel universe where a fake tanned Simon Bates has been replaced by a spindly hollow cheeked geek in a Cinerama T-shirt. And we as a nation would coo and sigh approvingly.

It pees from a great height on the next two selections, mind. Clearly Darren, bless him, wanted a dance titled theme to this EP. That can be the only excuse for his rather bizarre covers of Roxy Music's Dance Away and Eddy Grant's I Don't Wanna Dance. And I pray to my own personal God (David Silva, since you ask) that I never ever have to hear either of those subdued wonky takes again.

However, it's not for nothing that Mr Hayman has been labelled the indiepop Ray Davies because in his mitts the Kinks' Come Dancing sounds even more bitter and resentful than the original, and accompanied by Nik Verstberg on a Gameboy (er, yes, a Gameboy), it would have sat gloriously alongside the other gems on his two recent Essex themed albums.

Usual top quality cover too!

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