Lucky Soul “Woah Billy”
There may be “dark times ahead”, as frontwoman Ali Howard so delicately coos at the beginning of “Woah Billy”, but not even her edge-of-suicidal, teenybopper longing for the titular heartthrob can disrupt the sugar-high that this new Lucky Soul single produces.
The track’s glammy stomp and handclap-laden girl group giddiness damn near emits rays of sunshine through the speakers, showing little compassion for Howard’s depressed diary entries (“I’m like a flower in the shade,” goes one whine); throw in a sudden gear shift when the production makes a pit-stop at the Studio 54 and briefly get it’s “Hustle” on, sending disco lasers every which way, and you’ve got yourself one of the best pop confections of the year.
It’s only too bad that we’ll have to wait all the way until October to snatch up the rest of these London lads’ much-anticipated sophomore collection.
DL: “Woah Billy” (alt)
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