Number 39Trotter’s Top Ten position : 5 in 2008
UK Chart high : 26 in 2008
Everyone banged on about how uncategorisable Santi White was, so they made it easy and compared her to equally unboxable M.I.A. Lazy - I did it meself! There was even a bit of a backlash with critics saying that the album was just a load of different musical stylings with nothing holding it together - ska, dub, rock, 80's electronics, bit of Pixies, bit of Neneh Cherry. That would be true apart from the sublime, catchy pop melodies running throughout (something M.I.A. deliberately and too conciously seems to run from) and the self-assured delivery of someone who knows their own mind and that's not to be any one thing. Lord knows what happens next but if it's half as good as this debut then...er, it'll be at 78 in my next decade countdown. Bonus points for employing the 'abrupt album ending in the middle of a song' technique which still sometimes gets me checking my stereo's not gone on the blink. Oh and the 'Lights Out' video (strangely absent from youtube) takes the wallpaper/shirt scene from 'Garden State' and milks it for all it's worth...
Look at L.E.S. Artistes ; Creator ; Lights Out
Listen to a sampling of the Top Fifty on Spotify as we go or the 'one from each album' version
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