Its TRACK OF THE WEEK time
Let Go by Frou Frou (from the albums Details and the Garden State Soundtrack)
It gains the more it gives
And then it rises with the fall
So hand me that remote
Can't you see that all that stuff's a sideshow

Inclusion of this track on the Garden State soundtrack has raised Frou Frou's visibilty somewhat in this country. Frou frou are Imogen Heap and Guy Sigglesworth: Heap is better known as a solo artist, at least in Britain - she has a new album due out this year and a track from it was featured on the OC before Christmas. Clip from it here. Sigglesworth has had a number of gigs, musical director for Bjork's live show, co-writing credits with Seal and Madonna, but this is his first major personal collabaration. The stuff they do as Frou Frou is classified as trip-hop but that, to me, is like calling Tori Amos solo vocal and piano - at one level yes, but at so many other levels it misses the point. Although computers play a major role in the production of their albums, they are used as a way to enhance the instruments that they both play rather than dehumanize them. This is smart stuff - at first listen it seems like trippy bubblegum pop, but you find yourself revisiting it time and again and then it buries into your unconcious, annoyingly popping up at 3am running around your brain. Something like Vertigo by U2 but without the beneift of Ipod ads.