It's Officially Summer
I remember buying this 7" in Selectadisc many moons ago, I wasn't much of fan of Arab Strap but picked it up for reasons I do not know. The EP is an amazing little collection of songs that triggered a period of experimentation for the band and changed their sound for the better, R&B vocals stripped back club anthems, melodic grooves are aplenty. The track for me is this, Hey! Fever. It Plods and and builds and then builds some more with culminating with female vocal befitting of any house music anthem (surprised I have never heard this remixed or sampled - anyone ?). Perfect for today when Summer really is kicking in and I feel the faint sense of an itchy eye heralding in the early onset of a full blown hay fever damn.
What a lovely day for it