Saturday Flashback: Girls Can’t Catch – L.E.S. Artistes

“Actually very good.”

Tim: You may remember this lot from when we wrote about their excellent song Echo several years back; if you’ve a really good memory, you’ll remember that I mentioned that despite them splitting up the album they had recorded was due out sometime soon.

Tom: For once, I do actually remember that — which is a sign of just how good that first track was.

Tim: Well, it never came out. Not officially, anyway – it is, for some reason, available on YouTube via a Brazilian music website, and as this track demonstrates it’s actually very good.

Tim: Isn’t it? The verses are fairly standard, admittedly – say, a Saturdays album track. On the other hand, I really can’t get enough of that chorus, it’s just so lovely.

Tom: Really? Because that chorus also sounds like a Saturdays album track, crossed with Adele’s “Someone Like You”.

Tim: The ending’s perhaps – no, definitely – too drawn out; no-one has ever asked for a basically empty four bar loop repeated for over thirty seconds, but on the other hand: damn, that chorus.