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It's not spelt out on the list I'm using here, but I've taken as read that this is going to be Boris Dlugosch's remix, since it was the promotion of that one to A-side status over the rather spaced-out original version that made the song a hit and brought the band to mainstream attention.
The second Moloko album, I Am Not A Doctor, seemed to find the band at their most annoyingly, self-consciously weird. It's quite an achievement on Dlugosch's part that he succeeded in finding amid all this the pop heart of the song: the twisty rhythm and the remarkable performance of Roisin Murphy. Whilst this isn't quite my favourite vocal of hers, tending a little toward the whiny, it's a very ear-catching one that demands attention - and gets it too, remarkably for such a dancefloor hit. Nobody could accuse these vocals of being incidental, even if the lyrics don't seem to matter as much. Murphy later returned the favour by fronting Dlugosch's biggest solo hit, 'Never Enough'.
Also appearing on: Now 45
Available on: Catalogue
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