I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for overblown, gospel-tinged histrionics. I used to watch Live Aid on VHS when I was about 12, and the best bits always seemed to be when comically egotistical soft rock bands did their rousing, arms-in-the-air bits. That and Simple Minds doing ‘Don’t You Forget About Me’. Or when Simon le Bon embarrassed himself.
The misleadingly named Deptford Goth has taken those enjoyable yet anachronistic excesses and turned them into something distinctly modern. ‘No Man’ is a chopped, stuttering, yet beautifully crafted song that has one foot in Harlem and the other in Hackney. The fuzzy synth and scatty, hard-panned percussion that are so in vogue are both present and correct – but at its heart this is more musical, more song-like than the work of most of the producer’s contemporaries.
‘No Man’ is taken from the Youth II EP, out on Merok on 17 October.
Deptford Goth – No Man by The Line Of Best Fit
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