O’Spada “Ten Strikes”
Swedish band O’Spada must spend their entire days repeatedly studying every single piece of funk, R&B and blue-eyed soul-pop vinyl that came to be in the early-to-mid-’80’s; that’s the only way to explain away how insanely on-point their exercises in that era’s sound are.
For their new single “Ten Strikes” the five-piece don’t venture too far away from the expertly-crafted pop-funk stylings that made this past summer’s debut “Time” such an instantly addicting trip back in time, giving frontwoman Julia Spada another spectacular wah-wah and synth-accented playground for her out-sized jazzy warblings to carouse in.
Reminiscent of early Prince, with a little Rick James, Hall & Oates and Nu Shooz thrown in, the beat holds a serious “Must Drop Everything & Boogie Right Now!!!” groove, and Julia adorning it with a lyric about how happy she is her man is finally giving her the boot after she’s cheated on him eleventy-million times (she was tired of coming up with lies, it seems) only makes it that much more of a pleasantry.
O’Spada’s debut drops in February 2010.
DL: “Ten Strikes” (alt)
Bonus DL: “Ten Strikes (Nightwaves’ Sunday Morning Remix)” (alt)
i’m in love! thanks.