Album Review

Gaggle – I Hear Flies

• 7th Mar 2010

It’s just like the 22 piece, all girl, alternative choir have just bustled onto the dancefloor of FWD>> like a tacky hen-party hitting the town and have chosen the backdrop of a devastating, dubby drop to express themselves clearly.

Yes – alt-choir, because how many choirs do you hear bellowing about having ‘one rum, one vodka, one coke, one smoke’, the track itself is clattering and chaotic but overflowing with enough charm to keep a listener intrigued.

Forget the old school standard of rude girl Garage MCs that spawned Lady Soveriegn and Miss Dynamite, I would much rather have the ladies of Gaggle step up to the mic in a club.

The logistics of a 22 piece live act must surely be bewildering, but their music is completely beguiling.