More hear…
- The MySpace, natch for more corking tunes, esp ‘Netto Getto, and the aforementioned rant, ‘The Questions’.
- There’s a single out at the moment, perhaps on Play Louder, called ‘Big Man’ which is, of course, brilliant. Buy it now here, three tracks for £1.50.
- There also appears to be an album which needs investigating…

Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip ‘Look For The Woman’

Two blokes then, from Stanford Le Hope in Essex, everyone when mental for their ‘Thou Shalt Always Kill’ single last year, everyone frothed about their Radiohead-sampling free download ‘Letter From God To Man’. Smart move that. If I was in a band the first thing I’d do is use an uncleared Radiohead sample to drum up a bit of business.

End of the month sees the release of ‘Look For The Woman’, the first single from their debut long one ‘Angles’, out on Rob da Bank’s very fine Sunday Best label on May 12.

It’s hard to believe the single is only out at the end of the month with the sort of battering it’s been getting on Radio One. Zane Lowe has been giving it a very big ‘un, which – and far be it from us to point the finger – isn’t surprising when he has remixed the single.

An ultra smart bit of business from Robbie, you expect no less from him and his label really, but the thing is we can’t see ‘The Zane Lowe Mix’ on any versions of the release. It’s not on the seven-inch, the seven-inch picture disc or the CD, or the download bundle…

How so? We know Mr Lowe likes his beats, but he’s hardly your first choice for a remix. We’re all for giving people a chance, as is Robbie clearly, but why no sign of the mix on the single?

Far be it from us to be making mischief – perish the thought – but it suddenly occurred to have a look at Zane Lowe’s MySpace, and guess what? Yup. We’d heard it described as Woodstock meets De la Soul groove’ and you know what? That is what it is.

More hear…
- MySpace then for the proper, very excellent version of the single.
- Pre-order the single, and all the other remixes, from the Sunday Best site

The Tallest Man On Earth ‘I Won’t Be Found’

Krist Novoselic and Andy Cato – the two tallest men in music I’ve ever met.

Krist was in his post-Nirvana band Sweet 75, and after refusing to play darts for Melody Maker I met him for brief interview. He was a massive 6’7″. Andy, I went to university with before he formed Groove Armada. He is an even massiver 6’8″.

The Tallest Man On Earth claims on his MySpace to be ‘so tall I have a feeling that my funeral will be expensive, they’ll have to saw my body in half and put the two parts in separate graves. I guess some people will mourn the top part, some the bottom.’

For someone with such a wonky moniker, and such a line in wacky humour – he cuts a very earnest dash on mp3.

TTMOE sings like a man abandoned as a child – in an abandoned farmhouse wherever it is in Sweden he’s from, probably – who learnt language from a collection of scratchy Bob Dylan records (nasal croaking? Check. Atonal tuning? Check. Adenoidal vowels? Check).

But, in the most unlikely fashion it is the most touchingly, lovely sound. The track has the soaring, melancholy ring of Antony & The Johnson’s ‘Hope There’s Someone’. With Nick Drake on acoustic guitar. And his voice removes any saccharine edge from the ringing country folk.

Single ‘I Won’t Be Found’ is just brilliant. If all a little beard-strokey.

Not that you can tell if TTMOE has got a beard from is MySpace pic, reproduced here, above, up there. He’s so tall, you see… they’ve had to miss his head off. Sigh.

Hilarious those Swedes. The long, long nights must fly by.

More hear:
- Erm, the old, watchamacallit for four tracks. And more tall pics.
- and here for the video to equally ace track, ‘It Will Follow The Rain’. Which features a giant playing a tiny guitar.