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Citadels : 'Golden Islands'

Citadels : 'Golden Islands'

Released: 3rd August 2009

Label: Friends Vs Records

I don't know how, but we seemed to have travelled back in time. Walking down the street everyone seems to be clad in a combination of neon, Lycra and legwarmers in some sort of "Biggest Looking Tit" competition. Wispas, thanks to the campaigning of the morbidly obese, are back on the shelves. And to top it all practically every single piece of new music you'll hear played on Radio 1 is a piece of ceiling gazing electro. Yes ladies and gentleman, break out the Rubik cubes, we're back in the Eighties. And here is another slice of electro-pop courtesy of Citadels with their track 'Golden Islands'.

So how does it sit in a vastly over-populated scene? There's certainly a paradise theme to 'Golden Islands', with the synths turning the tinkle all the way up to eleven and oscillating waves of high strings give a definite taste of mojito. This is all set on top of a far edgier distorted beats, keeping everything from taking off on a complete flight of fancy. The lyrics are persitent and catchy, you'll be singing "Follow me/Won't you follow me/ To a place of dreams" until you get so sick of it you'll attempt to bite off your own tongue. It's all rather lovely. But perhaps that's not enough. As a piece of electro-pop it blends quite well into the scene, expect Jo Whiley to be husking out over it soon. But there's nothing here to blow you away, only the slight hint of a tropical breeze. Electro-pop may be packaged in vivid pinks and yellows but there's so much about it's all turning into grey sludge, it's difficult to tell one artist from another and I fear this may happen to Citadels and what is, to my ears, a fairly decent track.

So if you're enjoying the 80's revival through a bit of electro-pop break out the silver paint and buy this record, it'll go nicely with the rest. Just remember though, there were a lot of terrible things in the Eighties and all this nostalgia might just bring them back. Specifically that global spanning, destructive, four-letter disease. That's right, BROS. You have been warned.

Words: Harvey Ovenden

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