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Tally Ho!/Standard Fare:
I Will Never Marry +2/ At The Lake +2 Where You Are Is Where It’s At Records: 7777777 Singles Club 7”s

Article written by Ged M - Jun 4, 2012

The latest releases from the Seven 7s singles club from WIAIWYA are, as if you could have doubted, well worth acquiring. The blue vinyl single from Tally Ho! (Rose Melberg and Larissa Loyra) is the most intriguing. The women sing together, occasionally accompanied by muted acoustic guitar, on a series of affecting covers. These are the Carter Family’s ‘I Never Will Marry’, the Pretenders’ ‘Kid’ (with very pretty harmonies) and the old jazz/pop standard ‘Nature Boy’ on which their voices unadorned curl and spiral around each other like strands of very potent DNA. A quiet, sensitive single that satisfies an early hours or Sunday morning craving.

Standard Fare’s offering comes on indigo vinyl, accompanied by creasingly funny sleeve notes from Ben Clancy. ‘At The Lake’ is Jam-like danceable rhythmic pop, with Emma and Danny trading lines in call and response style and the whole thing getting appealingly more raw and ragged as it proceeds. The other tracks are guitar-based indiepop but with an edge that sets them apart. Emma sounds on the brink of shouting/crying on ‘Girlfriend’, with words of warning about romantic choices that matches jangly guitar figures to sparkling lines of advice (“…and not everyone has encyclopaedic knowledge of music”), while in the rifftastic powerpop of ‘Keeps Me Going’ she bewails: “I’ve been so tired so very long”. Great melodies and a palpable sense of angst and aching set this indiepop apart.

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