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title: “Hear Me Say Now” (the 2006-05-19 Friday Fetch-it) date: 2006-05-19 20:09 series: the Friday Fetch-it

tags: On The Radio, the Concretes, Victoria Bergsman, You Can't Hurry Love

<p><a title="The Concretes – On The Radio" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Concretes/_/On+The+Radio">On The Radio</a> was on this week's Roundtable; I found it quite pleasant but almost entirely forgettable. Far more memorable is <a title="The Concretes – You Can't Hurry Love" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Concretes/_/You+Can%27t+Hurry+Love">You Can't Hurry Love</a>, an impeccably-constructed pop song. It's composed in a sugary-sweet poptastic style, but there's no jingly-jangly piano in the execution. The instrumentation, and particularly <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Victoria+Bergsman">Victoria Bergsman</a>'s woozy, ever-so-slightly discordant vocals, seem mismatched with the song's ostensible style.</p>
<p>Yes, there are hand-claps (with a tambourine in the middle), but for some reason I reckon they're ironic. They do nothing to sweeten the song's delivery. Can't Hurry Love fools you into thinking it's a sugar-coated pop song, but when you pay attention to it, it actually doesn't sound sugary-sweet at any point.</p>
<p>Or maybe I'm reading too much into it and it is just a jaunty pop song. <strong>If you download one track this week, make it <a href="http://gkn.me.uk/thefridayfetchit/20060519.mp3">Can't Hurry Love</a>.</strong></p>