I wish I could write reviews as rapidly as Juppe lays down his songs in the studio. This one, ‘Woozy’, was completed in the course of an afternoon by all accounts. He reckons that’s how the best stuff gets made and I have to agree that inspiration that suddenly appears and can be tapped fully is often the most productive.
The song moves at 100 miles per hour, so fast that it is difficult to keep up with the lyrics, which concern the benefits of defiance in trying times, which I suppose can be interpreted in numerous different ways.
The only message I can pick up is that it is about kids that have nothing to say just trying to get through another day. That’s very much an indie rock statement from the late 90s/early 00s and one I heard Arcade Fire espouse repeatedly on their first three albums. But Juppe is no Win Butler.
And you know it helps when you’ve got a gaggle of teens outside your window at 10 o’clock at night, hanging loose and larking about doing just that – trying to get through the day. I’m surprised they aren’t playing this song on a boombox. Or out of a Ford Escort Mark 1 darkened window.
They’d undoubtedly consider it to be ‘cool’ and that’s precisely what Juppe sets out to be with his music.
Musically, pinning down any sort of ‘genre’ is a quest too far (and I had the same problem with a previous review, of his song ‘Curtis’). The underlying synth-played melody could have been taken out of the 1990s British TV children’s series Teletubbies while the overall ambiance of the song is one of a fun band like Haircut 100 or its singer-cum-solo-artist Nick Heyward.
And produced by Malcolm McLaren.
If that doesn’t pique your interest, nothing will.
‘Woozy’ is released on the Soliti label.
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