Los Campesinos! Review Jack White And Alicia Keys's Bond Theme
Jack White is a man who excites strange passions in people. His work in the White Stripes has caused loads of rocksnobs to come over all unnecessarily snooty about The Blues and Integrity and all sorts of other very REAL things which aren't massively related to people twanging metal strands across a big plank of wood, but then kind of are too.
There again, he's done a Coca-Cola commercial and has been known to dress like a member of A1, which tends to undermine The Blues argument a bit.
So, how to make head or tail of the fact that he has now joined forces with pop star Alicia Keys and recorded the theme song to the new James Bond movie Quantum Of Solace (translation: How Much Reassurance)? Well, we'll need someone who likes their pop, but who also has a lot of love for the homegrown indie way of doing things, so they can see both sides of the situation clearly.
The person we need is clearly Gareth from out of Los Campesinos!
And that is why I made him review it for me. That, and the fact that I could not be bothered, obv...
So, here's the song.
And here is Gareth and I discussing it, as if we are on a late night arts show...
Or ...
Comment number 1.
At 20th Oct 2008, katieloum wrote:The song doesnt sound very Bond-ish at all, so they've tried to make the guitar riff sound like a Bond song but it just seems like overcompensating.
And their voices dont go together very well imo
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