Christie & The Dream Beats – My Boyfriend’s Clothes

“How is a song with chirpy whistling and a vocoder charming?”

Tom: Or, sometimes, “Dream Beats and Christie”. Looks like they’ve settled on the more traditional arrangement, though.

Tim: Yes, and we had a lot of time for this band’s previous track, Wasn’t My Fault, and it’s still on my go to playlist for a pickup track. Here’s their current track.

Tom: How is a song with chirpy whistling and a vocoder charming? I know it’s a subtle vocoder, but still, that’s not meant to be possible.

Tim: And it’s a song like Tuesday’s Ace Wilder track: I like it, it’s good, but damn I wish I could get past trying to remember what song it is that it reminds me of. It’s from the very first vocal line “you should be getting on your plane” except the note for plane jumps up much higher in the song I’m thinking of but ANYWAY.

Tom: One of the choruses from Gwen Stefani’s What You Waiting For? The hook of Nelly’s Dilemma, on the way into the middle eight?

Tim: No, neither of those. But where were we? Oh, yeah, it’s a good track. Doesn’t quite hit the heights of the previous, but it’ll do for a summery whistly track. I particularly like the vocal part of the chorus, with its business-like atmosphere, “this is what I do, I don’t care what you think”. All in all, and particularly if I can get over the soundalike, not bad.

Tom: I mean, it’s not “Wasn’t My Fault”, but I think it’ll be a long time before I hear a big track like that.

Tim: I would like an album from these folk at some point, though.