(Musos's Guide, January 26, 2009)
Single review
“Trouble Andrew” sounds like an angry mother’s warning to her errant son after he’s been found peering at the next door neighbour changing. Or perhaps a schoolteacher who has discovered one of his charges smoking behind the bike sheds - “Trouble, Andrew!”
Well, it sounds more like those than it sounds like the name of a truly creditable music artist, and certainly not one who has the urban music worrld at his feet thanks to his relationship with sassy chanteuse Santogold.
If Trouble Andrew, a former world champion snowboarder who left behind the extreme lifestyle grudgingly thanks to an injury, is aiming to demonstrate his musical versatility, he’s not done his best work here. From the off, Trouble and DJ Diplo make the most of the church organ they’ve hauled into the studio for the occasion. The doomy melody is overlaid with myriad beeps that sound like they’ve been nabbed from an ’80s arcade game.
The lyrics here are rudimentary, and barely offer a window onto romance between Trouble and his beau, if that’s what you’re after. “Run, run, hide, hide… stay ’til the morning, darling” the vocal trills annoyingly. It is grasping desperately for the grandiosity of Kanye West doing ‘Stronger’, but it has invariably fallen short and is more redolent of Trouble and Diplo pottering around the studio together.
Now that Trouble Andrew is falling back on music as his second career, there will doubtless be many more opportunities for him to prove his musical mettle. ‘Run Hide’ has only succeeded in rousing mother - “Trouble, Andrew!”
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