C.D. Singles Club #35 – Stricken City – Small Things
We aren’t even three dozen deep into this singles club series and already we’ve found our first repeat performers. Kora Records’ Stricken City, a London-based art/indie dance pop outfit, follow up their mid-September appearance in the series with another tune, “Small Things.” The second single to be released off the band’s just dropped debut album, Songs About People I Know, “Small Things” goes in a different direction altogether than the first single, “Pull the House Down,” making the likelihood that you, like we Citizen Dicks, will fall in love with the entire album all the greater.
Going with rapid-fire guitar bursts where “Pull the House Down” possessed a dancier groove, “Small Things” doesn’t abandon the feet-moving feelings even as it moves a little closer down the continuum toward rock, if only for the enhanced addition of distortion and feedback. As much as I love my music drenched in fuzz, vocalist Rebekah Raa’s voice is too luscious to cover up like that, even if the effect overall is strong. This is one you are going to want to listen to over and over again, grabbing the nuances and making out the lyrics.
Check out Stricken City’s other material for yourself here. If you like it, you can purchase the album here. In the meantime, feast your eyes on the visuals from the band’s performance of the track at the Fader Fort during the recent CMJ festivities below.
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