The Sounds - Dying To Say This To You

The Sounds - Dying To Say This To You CD (Warner Sweden)

I read about The Sounds in a recent issue of NME, and thought they'd be worth checking out. They have a fun, energetic sound that, to my ears, mixes the vocals and attitude of Missing Persons with the faux New Wave sounds of The Bravery and The Killers (no surprise, since it was produced by the same person who produced The Killers' Hot Fuss CD). Although there is a ballad, "Night After Night", on the CD, which didn't work (for me) very well on a jog, all of the other tunes had a consistant rhythm that helped me keep a good pace this weekend (I jogged about 4 miles on Saturday, taking it easy due to a leg injury from a soccer game a few weeks ago).

The big hit from this, their second CD, is "Tony The Beat", a catchy dance tune tailor-made for the dance floor. The song has gotten 1.3 million plays on their mySpace page, and they have a disc of mixes available. I predict that their next hit will be "Running Out Of Turbo", a tune with a "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey" chorus that has the same impact as Blur's "Whoo-Hoo" on "Song 2".





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