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Fraser McAlpine | 10:58 UK time, Sunday, 4 April 2010

Darwin Deez

OK, here are a few things you're not allowed to say about this song:

You're not allowed to say it's the result of a quest for perfect pop music, because it's not. It's too crackers for that, too packed with personality. It follows its own internal logic on a quest to somewhere, this is true, but that destination does not involve a trip to anywhere perfect. Perfection is not the goal. The celebration of imperfection might just be.

You're not allowed to say it's just freaky and weird. It's not. Yes, Darwin is blessed with a meandering voice, and his song is unlikely to be covered by Girls Aloud anytime soon, but it's still clearly a well-structured song, aimed at the remembral receptors of the brain.

You're not allowed to say Darwin is rocking the Napoleon Dynamite look. I mean he clearly IS, but shhh. This rule is probably the least fair, but hey ho.

(. It's waffly good.)

And here are a few things you ARE allowed to say:

You're allowed to say that a little bit of imagination is a welcome change from what can sometimes feel like quite a formulaic artform. And that a change is as good as a rest and all that.

On a similar note, you're also allowed to say that a little charm goes a long way, especially when a lot of pop songs try to drag at your attention with widescreen self-importance. It's possibly not how you'd want all music to be at all times, but there's definitely a time and place for it. And that place is here and that time is now.

And you can definitely say that you like a bit of rattle-crash-bang in your pop music. Everyone does.

Anything else you wish to say about this song is, of course, up to you.

Five starsDownload: Out now
7" Released: April 5th

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(Fraser McAlpine)

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