{"id":16168,"date":"2016-05-20T12:29:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T11:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=16168"},"modified":"2019-09-05T18:35:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T17:35:03","slug":"artist-of-the-month-you-want-fox-you-cant-sit-with-us-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/artist-of-the-month-you-want-fox-you-cant-sit-with-us-review\/","title":{"rendered":"ARTIST OF THE MONTH: You Want Fox &#8211; You Can&#8217;t Sit With Us &#8211; Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><a href=\"\">YOU WANT FOX<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0entered our <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bloodstream<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> back in January 2015. Now, after listening to their debut album \u2018<em>You Can\u2019t Sit With Us<\/em>\u2019, I\u2019m forever left with a glorious lipstick stain on my eardrums. This album is a middle finger up to the haterz and comes with all the punk attitude and sexyness of a fiersome, female duo. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Released to wide appraisal, \u2018<em>Bad Girls<\/em>\u2019 is the single off the album. It\u2019s military-esque drum beat is a call to arms &#8211; empowering ladies and daring them to flirt with their naughty side. If Nottingham had a Grunge-Rock <strong>Beyonce<\/strong> equivalent &#8211; this would be it. It sets the tone for the next eight tracks and makes you want to trade in that hat for a pair of red horns. The momentum builds and finishes with a repeat of the chorus \u2018bad girls do it better\u2019 &#8211; you\u2019ll be marching in tune by the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"%3A;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next is the slightly more poppy \u2018<em>Queen Bee<\/em>\u2019. Think Mean Girls doing Punk-Pop. Again, super catchy chorus reaffirming that Natalie\u2019s song writing \u2018comes with more hooks than a pirate convention\u2019. Self-assured, confident and with a dab of ego-rubbing &#8211; but hey we all do it! Colette\u2019s drum beat provides the backbone showing she is queen of tempo. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starting with punchy, distorted vocals, \u2018<em>Wingin it<\/em>\u2019 puts YWF right back in the bosom of Grunge-Rock. It\u2019s also the first time we hear extended harmonies proving the girls don\u2019t just shout, they sing. There\u2019s plenty of cymbal bashing on this one but the soft vocal harmonies add great texture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listening to this album I already know that I want to see these guys live. In fact, I have, but listening to it makes me want to see them again. With the flick of Natalie\u2019s voice on the chorus, \u2018<em>Shades of Grey<\/em>\u2019 is easy to sing along to, quirky and has a sprinkle of puckish flavour thrown in for good measure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Half way through the album and if you were thinking of making a cup of tea &#8211; oh no!! \u2018<em>Take Me Home<\/em>\u2019 has one of the most powerful starts off the album with a down and dirty bass riff. Natalie\u2019s sultry voice then acts as a siren enticing you in with lyrics like \u2018I don\u2019t bite\u2019. Somehow by the end we don\u2019t believe you. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With power to match that of <strong>Deap Vally<\/strong>, YWF\u2019s \u2018<em>Venus Virus<\/em>\u2019 is a shouting anthem. The echoing start (after all YWF prove that two is better than one) leads to the repeating chorus \u2018oh this song wasn\u2019t meant for you\u2019. I can already picture it sprawled in red lippy on the mirror. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soooo imagine if Barbie and Ken broke up and Barbie sunk a bottle of Vodka and went on a rampage about Ken, that would be \u2018<em>Ex Boyfriend<\/em>\u2019. With these two songs next to each other you might think there\u2019s a certain amount of men-bashing on the album. Well, I\u2019m not sure about that but let\u2019s just say we wouldn\u2019t want to break up with YWF! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a chorus that goes \u2018NA na NA na NAA, NAna NAna NAA naa\u2019 \u2018<em>Supernova Super Fake<\/em>\u2019 is reminiscent of chants from the schoolyard &#8211; fitting for the album title. It\u2019s a return to a more poppy sound and we get to hear Colette\u2019s vocals shine fully for the first time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You might think \u2018<em>Throw Down Your Weapons<\/em>\u2019 is a sign of peace with whatever behemoth YWF has been fighting but that\u2019s not the case. Impact Impact Impact &#8211; this song ends the album on an all time high &#8211; it certainly doesn\u2019t want to make me throw down any of the weapons that I\u2019ve been building up for the past eight tracks&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An album to mark their territory, YWF has come out with all guns blazing\u2026 then again, we kinda wouldn\u2019t have expected anything less.|<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can buy the album <a href=\"\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>. We&#8217;ll let you know if we hear of any Notts record shops stocking it.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yours in Love of New Music,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anna Butler x<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YOU WANT FOX\u00a0entered our bloodstream back in January 2015. Now, after listening to their debut album \u2018You Can\u2019t Sit With Us\u2019, I\u2019m forever left with a glorious lipstick stain on my eardrums. This album is a middle finger up to the haterz and comes with all the punk attitude and sexyness of a fiersome, female&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"theme-button-text wvc-button wvc-button-size-xs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/artist-of-the-month-you-want-fox-you-cant-sit-with-us-review\/\"><small class=\"wvc-button-background-fill\"><\/small><span>Continue reading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,4,15],"tags":[639,217,1505,1504,1157],"class_list":{"0":"post-16168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-artist-of-the-month","8":"category-blog","9":"category-reviews","10":"tag-artist-of-the-month-2","11":"tag-review","12":"tag-wollaton","13":"tag-you-cant-sit-with-us","14":"tag-you-want-fox","15":"entry-post-skin-dark","16":"entry","17":"clearfix","18":"entry-grid","19":"entry-columns-default","20":"entry-post-module-layout-fullwidth","21":"thumbnail-color-tone-dark","22":"metro-landscape","23":"entry-post","25":"entry-post-grid"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16168"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20797,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16168\/revisions\/20797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}