W&H have been trying to shove powerful, Essex-based trio THE MORENAS towards a wider audience for a while now, especially as they have released a succession of fine singles (‘Coming Home’, the ‘Dance To Your Dictator’ EP and the punsome but cool “It Shouldn’t Mata’ ) which seem to have slipped through the commercial net.
“My Violent Femme” is the trailer single from their long-awaited debut album “Whole And The Half” and it’s a typically irrepressible strut of a rocker, heavy on Tim Jackson’s sleazy basslines, Steve Wilson’s hi-hat-riding disco rhythms and Paolo Morena’s stabbing guitar riffs. Vocally, Paolo seems to be shooting more from the Robert Plant-style hip, but with this tale of a (true to life) bizarre love triangle situation in Amsterdam he pretty much gets away with it, especially when that ‘ba da da da’ chorus pulls it all together.
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Mystifyingly, there’s also an inferior new version of “Coming Home” on the flip. It reminds us it’s a great song, but also that the original was much better. Oh well, best foot forward to the album proper and all that.
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