Amusement – Run Through The Door // Song Of The Day #344

Whatever happened to the male gene, eh? And I’m not talking trousers here. Gone are the days of James Dean-esque seduction and in its place we have post-teenage boys sobbing over their Twitter trying to win their exes back. James Dean would be turning in his grave, if he hadn’t already been cremated that is.

‘Run Through The Door’, the latest offering from Croydon’s Amusement and a smooth crooning of twisted love, makes us thankful that this is indeed the case and that all songs nowadays don’t just sound like caveman grunts and that all CD releases don’t come with a free sample of Lynx attached. Held up against a backdrop of arpeggio synths and a thudding bass drum, the chorus “Something tells me you want to destroy me / The way you ignore me” sounds like a 90s dance classic you somehow must have missed and reads like an internal monologue of confused longing from across the other side of the dancefloor.

The South London pair have been putting out a good fair few R&B and house-infused futuro-electro bangers these past couple of months, as well as recently reworking the likes of Outfit. The duo (acquiring one extra body for live shows) have a gig count of only two fingers’ worth, supporting the aforementioned Outfit and Gross Magic a month back and playing their second show at the Shacklewell Arms a fortnight ago. They play the impressively-assembled Binnacle micro-fest this weekend alongside the likes of Seams, Acid Glasses and Active Child.

Amusement – Run Through The Door

Amusement play the Sunday leg of Binnacle, hosted at London’s Old Blue Last on 16 October.