Various - Now That's What We Call Music Vol. 1

  by Sarah Maybank

published: 28 / 1 / 2008

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For 10 years now, Fantastic Plastic have been satisfying tune-hungry punters who enjoy a bit of snap and crackle in their pop. As befitting a label that was started in a school playground, this retrospective compilation bursts with the Day-Glo energy of E numbered-up junior schoolers underpinned with a bedrock of teen hero-imitation. All your indie gangs are present and correct, coalescing worshipfully around their pet sounds like bullies around the soft kid. There’s the cute, ramshackle C86ers (Bearsuit, Umlaut); the new wave disco fans (Kubichek!, Ikara Colt); the delicate acoustic troubadours (Astrid, Willie Campbell and Kevin MacNeil); the punk hard-asses (The Beatings); the arty loners you give a nervous wide-berth to (Futureheads, Victorian English Gentlemen’s Club) and the assured songsmiths whose slick tunes get all the alpha girls (Guillemots, The Immediate). But who wants to be analysing the schoolyard-esque nuances of a singles compilation like some grovelling teacher’s pet? Especially when they could be simply sticking this on their iPod and letting it put a spring in their step? Not us for a start. So forget the thesis, and just give it a listen.

Track Listing:-

1 The Strange Death Of Liberal England- A Day Another Day
2 Ikara Colt -At The Lodge
3 Bearsuit- Foxy Boxer
4 Guillemots- Who Left The Lights Off, Baby?
5 Astrid- Distance
6 The Victorian English Gentlemens Club- Impossible Sightings Over Shelton
7 The Futureheads- Ticket
8 Buffseeds- Sparkle Me
9 Angelica- Why Did You Let My Kitten Die?
10 Help She Can't Swim- Pass The Hat Around
11 The Immediate- Big Sad Eyes
12 Kubichek!- Night Joy
13 Chow Chow- Dear Francis
14 The Beatings- Bad Feeling
15 Umlaut- Winter Coat
16 William Campbell And Kevin MacNeil- Local Man Ruins Everything

Label Links:-

http://www.fpmusic.org/

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