Singled out
Gnarls Barkley - Run
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‘Crazy’ is a hard act to follow – just ask Gnarls Barkley’s other singles, if you can remember them – so ‘Run’ has its work cut out from the first staccato note. Where it triumphs is in sounding utterly out of step with anything else chipping at the pop coalface: Danger Mouse has fashioned a hyper-speed garage band/girl group swinger, zipping by without a beat wasted, with Cee-Lo on fine preacher-man form for every second of its two and three-quarter minutes. It’s catchy as a cold and oddly unbrilliant. No nine-week chart-topper, but jolly good fun.
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Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction
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”All that we ever do is play in the sheets” says Snoop, as if it’s a bad thing. In fact, playing in the sheets is pretty much all he’s interested in here. Doggy Dogg works his moves on us, with full-on vocoder action and the smoothest beats this side of Marvin Gaye. It’s as seductive as he reckons, the synthed-up ambience taking you back the ‘80s when r’n’b was at its sleekest and most lascivious, and the best part is Snoop plays it all straight. God knows where his tongue is if it’s not in his cheek.
