Sky Larkin - Beeline
While Britpop’s male protagonists are still cluttering up the place (Damon back with Blur, Noel Gallagher still determined to insult every other band in existence and Jarvis Cocker conducting lectures disguised as concerts), it’s most famous female faces have moved on. Sleeper’s Hitchcock blonde, Louise Wener now writes novels, Elastica’s Doc Marten clad dictator Justine Frischmann sloped off to America to study architecture and Kenickie’s Lauren Laverne has seemingly been crowned Queen Of All British Culture.
So with the feisty femme fatales of Britpop’s first wave all otherwise engaged, where should the music fan seeking the simple charms of female-fronted indie pop look? Step forward Sky Larkin, the Leeds three-piece fronted by Katie Harkin whose vocals swirl seductively throughout their latest single Beeline. A perfect slice of power-pop, the song rests on relentless drumming and frantically strummed guitars while Harkin assures us: “I’ve got a lead that I’m following up.”
Despite an obvious penchant for creating singalong hooks and melodies that take up almost permanent residence in your brain, the band also have a taste for the unusual. For instance, Beeline is being sold with a promotional analogue watch through the Wichita Recordings online store. Their forthcoming debut album The Golden Spike (due out in early 2009) is filled with spiky indie pop and curious lyrics (“You and I in relative size, like an atom inside two small flies in our cathedral”), just the kind of thing to cure the cravings of an old Sleeper fan jonesing for a fix of Inbetweener-style thrills.
The track is the QPM "five-day favourite" single of the week on Q Radio and you can hear it on the the programme, presented by Samanthi, each weeknight from 6pm.
Mic Wright
11:06 AM | 19/01/2009
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