Thursday 6 September 2007

Sonny J "Band Of The Day" Guardian Online

"Sonny J, short for Sonnington James III, is a turntablist Scouser now living in Kent with a twin penchant for early-70s soul and early-70s spin-offs of telly cartoon shows featuring blockbuster pubescent soul-family ensembles. The video to his debut single Can't Stop Moving is a Spike Jonze-ish hotpants-and-afro amateur retro-fest, while on YouTube the song, which has shrill boy vocals that must surely be sampled from an old Jackson 5 album track, has been hooked up to old footage from that J5 Hanna-Barbera TV series they used to show on Saturday mornings back to back with the one starring little animated Osmonds. Remember? Us neither. Far too young. But our parents swear by them. Talking of bad habits, Can't Stop Moving, which has the words This Year's Gnarls Barkley running through it like a stick of rock, is one of those scarily addictive songs-as-narcotics that they should liquidise and put in Pete Doherty's crackpipe. It's a legal high, baby."
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