Anyone discovering The Little Ones on the radio would be forgiven for thinking they were hearing The Magic Numbers, so closely do they echo the West London band’s puppy-eyed combination of chiming guitars, sweetly trilling vocals and sugary,Mamas & Papas-style harmonies.
New single Ordinary Song even does that Love Me Like You thing where it goes all quiet and coy three minutes in, before building back to up a big, layered, sun-streaked climax.
The Little Ones’ West Coast sound has a greater ring of authenticity, though, since the band hail from Los Angeles County – specifically Culver City, home of the original MGM studios and hence the place where such classic films as Gone With The Wind, Citizen Kane, ET and Raging Bull were filmed.
They’re evidently a likeable bunch, although perhaps a little too eager to play the role of twinkly-eyed indie aesthetes. Indeed, a quick glance at their Myspace gets our tweeness detector tweaking violently into the red. In the “sounds like” column the fivesome list “thought bubbles, laughter, chocolate…and smiles”, while their biography shrinks from anything as grown up as dates and facts; in its place we get a load of flannel about “setting sail to bring good cheer to others everywhere.” To which the only sane response is: bleurgh.
Nonetheless, Ordinary Song is difficult to resist. Teleporting you into an impossibly distant fantasy-land of open sunroofs and melting tarmac, it’s the perfect sonic escape hatch in this endless, wintry, pitiless, penniless month of January. Plus it mentions “the radio” in the chorus, which pretty much guarantees heavy airplay - so it’ll most likely be a hit. Oh, and Father Ted creator Graham Linehan is a fan, and he’s rarely wrong about anything.
Ordinary Song is out 21 January, followed by debut album The Morning Tide on April 15.
10:08 PM | 09/01/2008
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