(Muso's Guide, February 26, 2009)
Single review
Icelandic chanteuses… With their unusual vocal styles and devil-may-care attitude to conservatism, they’re ten a penny, right?
Well, here’s something even more unique - Italian-Icelandic Emiliana Torrini. Oh, she’s been around for a while - most notably singing on the soundtrack to The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers, but she’s always been fighting to break into mainstream pop.
‘Jungle Drum’ oughta do it.
Off Torrini’s third album, Me And Armini, it is the quirkpop hit to end them all, and is certainly burbling out of a radio near you right now.
Kicking off with a twanging bass, Emiliana chants about being in love against a backdrop of electronic blips and whirrs.
She can’t stop her feet, and neither will you when her delicious vocal rendering of the titular percussive elements lifts the chorus.
The lyrics are seductively simple, starting “Hey, I’m in love”, and spelling it out like all the best pop tunes, “Hey, read my lips/ ‘Cos all they say is kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss”.
A fun, punchy pop record pumped up with dancey rhythms and overlaid with Torrini’s bizarro vowels, the sum total of two minutes and 13 seconds will leave you feeling more energised than the rest of the hit parade put together.
With a terrific vocal, a swirly psychedelic break and even a well-timed keychange, this is true pop music - marching to the beat of its own drum.
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