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Little Fish‘s debut album ‘Baffled and Beat’ was unquestionably brilliant, but there was a palpable feeling of tension running through it - it felt like a record born of adversity, which later turned out to be pretty much the case. The band have now started again from first principles with an indie label, and it shows; ‘Wonderful’ feels like a joyous release from the restraints of the past - it‘s intimate and warm, yet packs a sunburst chorus stomped out with a passion that makes your heart want to burst. Even though the lyrics suggest a hidden darkness, the translation is one of bruised defiance, of a desire to stand and fight rather than admit defeat. The uplifting combo of chiming guitars and breezy hammond organ fires you up so that the beautifully understated yet insistent rhythm can drive it headlong into your affections. Single of the month, and a superb sign of things to come.
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Little Fish's Wonderful in Nightshift →
What a great review from our favourite local music rag:
Watching Little Fish play at Cornbury Festival, it was striking just how much more rich and powerful singer Julia Sophie’s voice was than any of the far more experienced blues singers on show over the weekend.
She’s always been a singer of extraordinary talent of course but since working with Linda Perry she’s discovered even greater depths of vocal strength and flexibility and that shows on this new single, one that finds Little Fish sounding far more like a three-piece than a year or so ago when Hammond player Ben Walker felt a little like a tagged-on extra to Julia and Nez’s unfettered garage rock. In fact, having watched Ju and Ben’s set as a duo at Truck, you wonder if this isn’t a direction they’re heading more towards.
On ‘Wonderful’, the organ swirls and howls around the melody sumptuously, lifting Julia’s voice higher than before, the song feeling awash with a sense of jubilation where previously Little Fish have mined a darker lyrical seam – ‘Wonderful’ feels like a ‘Sunday Morning’ to ‘Darling Dear”s ‘Heroin’.
You sense this marks entry into a more mainstream musical world but not at the expense of the band’s heart and soul, which still shine bright as ever. And catch the excellent animated video for the single if you can; it’s a fantastic slice of psychedelic whimsy, reminiscent of Mew’s Jonas Bjerre or Wladyslaw Starewicz’s early-80s work.
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I just updated the Paper Club page with a preview of the Wonderful comic.
— Ben
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Little Fish - Wonderful (by Little Fish)
Just added this beautiful work of art to the top of the Wonderful page.
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This is how you spread the Wonderful word →
Looks like onesideofanampersand gets the prize for online PR.
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Quick Wonderful video update
The owl has been posed, the backdrops painted, the sets built, the photos taken. We’ve filmed some footage of ourselves mucking around to be inserted magically into the animation. Now it’s editing time. We’ll see the first cut in a couple of weeks.
Very excited.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Dave Gilyeat interviewed Juju at Cornbury Festival for the BBC Introducing show in Oxford, and gave Wonderful its first radio play.
In case you missed it, here it is. ;)
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Wonderful gets its first real life radio play on Radio Oxford tonight! →
This week’s Introducing show (9pm Sunday) also features an interview with Juju and the usual array of awesome Oxford music.
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