"Out Of Myself" comes from BENJAMIN DIAMOND'S album of the same title, but sadly your reviewer is pitifully ignorant of it as he comes to review the single: apparently the third - after "Let's Get High" and "There Is A Girl" - to be culled from said record.
Still, if "Out Of Myself" is indicative of the rest of the album, then it sounds like backtracking may be the order of the day, as this is enjoyably gregarious pop: spacy, beaty and immediate which -despite flecks of Air-style electronica drifting in and out of its' orbit - references surprisingly old-fashioned guitar-based outfits such as 10CC and Badfinger as much as any current radio-jamming fare. The lyrical input appears to involve beng slipped a Mickey Finn and apperently enjoying it, while the chorus makes a big and welcome splash.
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The inevitable brace of remixes are diverting too. The 'DJ FAST EDDIT DUB' heads for the dancefloor in no uncertain terms, peps up the bass and beats and hangs onto enough of the vocal to retain cerebral interest, while in-demand Parisian remixer ARK gives it a more radical, Warp-style makeover: retaining the slinky danceability end curiously ending up recalling Cabaret Voltaire's Virgin period. Which makes some kind of parallel sense, I guess.
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