The Greatest Song in the World This Week: "Waving Flags" – British Sea Power
The Greatest Song In The World This Week
It’s a whole new year which means there’s a tirade of exciting new music out there waiting to tinkle with your eardrums. Say goodbye to nu-rave, laters Ronson covers, so long (again) band-reforming-casher-inners, and hello to female soul-singers, folk, and er, British Sea Power!
Among the first releases of 2008 is British Sea Power’s ‘Waving Flags’, taken from the band’s forthcoming third album Do you like Rock Music?, due to be released on Rough Trade later this month. The strong melody created by guitarists Yan and Noble harks back to the high quality indie-pop pioneered by the likes of Jarvis Cocker before goons like Coldplay came and infected the genre with U2 style guitar-riffs and Chris Martin’s perpetual whining.
With Glastonbury pre-registration just round the corner, the whiff of festival is in the air, and ‘Waving Flags’ looks set to be one of this year’s outdoor anthems, not just because it’s both powerful and catchy, but because, well, you can wave a flag along to it.
Even if the song is not your cup of coffee, the video has a giant badger AND a bear in it! That must be worth something…
[video: worldsfair]
