Camille - Money Note

 

You'll know this I'm sure, being an enquiring and definition defying bunch of sonic crusaders, but wine gets much more interesting once you step away from the unifying production lines of supermarket fodder and into the complexities of regions and growers. You'll have thought this, no doubt, staggering through a rainy festival field to watch The Magic Numbers clutching a slowly warming but still perfect Grüner Veltliner.

Music, it strikes me, is much the same. Hop off the major label global hit tourer, packed full of flawless role models with all hint of regional character polished and styled away, and things just get better, deeper, fresher. We Are The Physics are very Glasgow, Foals are totally Oxford, The Enemy are Coventry on plastic and Camille is very, very Paris.

Money Note is the second single to be taken from the Music Hole album and has been re-editted for a more dance floor sound. It's very Studio 54, like Grace Jones dancing barefoot with Laurie Anderson on a shag pile carpet at Serge Gainsbourg's appartment. It's chic and smart with a load of pleasing beeeoooows a la Anita Ward's Ring My Bell and quirky vocals a plenty.

Damn, I've gone and said it. Quirky... a word that brings fear to the heart of many a music lover and artist alike and the occasional landing place of regional and, as in this case, French music. Sorry France, I don't mean to be rude, but it must be said  that although you're great at lots of things.. wine, cheese, lace, literature and philosophical thought, let's face it, music has never been your strong point.

True, Daft Punk are great, true also of Les Negresse Vertes, but the reality is that we in the UK rate most of your music in much the same way as you rate our sparkling wines (it's a fair swap I think). You know this, we know this, so lets just get it out in the open.

But stop, I'm not writing off Camille, this just isn't the best single to plant on us. The disco-ing up and quirkyfying takes away from the subtleties and real charm of what Camille does. For a different and altogether better Camille try Ta Douleur, second track on the album Le Fils and packed with the poetry, romance and proletarian huffing that make Camille so.... Parisian.

5/10 

Dan MuHead 

Money Note is released on Charisma Records on 23rd June

Get Music Hole from Play.com or iTunes

More Camille stuff at www.camille-music.com  

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