Video Jam of the Day: Tilly and the Wall - Beat Control
March 20th, 2008 | 2:30 pm est |
Tilly and the Wall’s first two albums (Wild Like Children and Bottoms of Barrels) are wildly passionate, barely under control blasts of post-teen angst and desperately romantic emotions that spill out of the grooves like big fat teardrops.
Their big gimmick was using tap dancing as a rhythmic base and it worked pretty well, though it may have distracted listeners with short attention spans into thinking the group was some kind of novelty act, which they most definitely were not. No, they were dead serious every minute — until now it seems. Their new single “Beat Control” is a silly, dancefloor-friendly slab of chunky disco with no audible tap dancing, cheerleader-esque backing vocals and few deep sentiments beyond letting the beat control your body and getting as wild and loose as possible. The song isn’t on their upcoming album (O, which has a June 17th release date scheduled) so maybe the goofy, light-hearted sound of the song would be out of place among all the broken-hearted intensity, or maybe the record is so amazingly good there was no room to include a brilliant pop single.
Check out the video:






jordache-tastic!