Cheesy, cheap & cheerful. Kitsch pop-ska for Radio One play to lambrini girls as they read Heat sunbathing in paved-over back gardens. And fitting in with none of that I’m still thoroughly loving it.
The second summery song about London I’ve liked this spring and it’s even more upbeat than the previous one. It’s not for you moody music snobs or those horribly dull intellectuals looking for hidden emotional depth in every song, LDN is for those who enjoy easy laughs & skipping and falling off the swings in the park even if we are old enough to know better.
The tesco/al-fresco rhyme pretty much gives the best indication of how great this track is: if you’re liable to cringe and shy away from songs about “the sun is in the sky” and everything being nice then avoid it, if however you have the good sense to enjoy nicely done lyrical games & sunshine tunes then you’ll love this. Lily Allen manages to take the vocal dexterity more associated with urban hip-hop artists and apply it to pop lyrics while adding a nice Ska side to things which, along with the Caribbean-laced intro, makes for a wonderfully uplifting result.
