Whereas Frankie Sinatra heard The Avalanches meld together such musically incongruous, if temporally, relatively intimate tracks as Wilmoth Houdini’ Bobby Sox Idol and Rodgers & Hammerstein’s My Favorite Things, while Colours subsequently heard the Antipodeans superbly recreate the sounds and atmospheres of Since I Left You from scratch, Subways finds itself somewhere between the two. Because although it’s basically little more than a sonic commingling of underground NYC songstress Chandra’s starry, mangled 1980 number of the same name and Graham Bonnet’s ’78 rendition of the Bee Gees’ Warm Ride (with snippets of The Bar-Kays’s Sang and Dance – also sampled on Will Smith’s Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It – added for extra warmth), this third single from their forthcoming sophomore full-length, Wildflower, has that same classy, incontrovertibly classic sound as, say, A Different Feeling, or Little Journey. And that which Robbie Chater and Tony Di Blasi are taking us on this year is one heck of a(n intrinsically trippy) ride…
Wildflower will be available from Friday, 8th July, via XL Recordings.