LOOPER'S recent album "The Snare" was by far the best thing ex-BELLE & SEBASTIAN bassist Stuart David has thus far been involved in in this writer's eyes.
"She's A knife", though, isn't seems one of the better songs to cull when stacked up against the likes of, say, "Lover's Leap," "New York Snow" and the mysterious, Eastern European feel of the title track. However, when isolated it performs better.
To be fair, "She's A knife" still remains a bit of a one-trick pony, with the economic hip-hop beats, David's enigmatic whisper of a vocal and that irritating marimba riff putting little flesh on the bones. It's the superb backing vocal arrangement from guests Elaine Lavelle and Debbie Poole that really saves the day, though: the most majestic thing, it just flies out at you as if from nowhere giving this potentially underachieving fare a righteous kick up the ass.
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Nonetheless, more power to Stuart David for both expanding his own horizons with this dark, filmic sound and also for daring to drag his cronies into areas that the dreary B&S would never threaten to go.
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