The Sexual Hot Bitches are two ladies from London, who create riot grrrl-tinged pop music about killing cats and shagging. The first of three tracks on offer here, ‘Kitty’, is a droll tale of wanting to kill their cat so they can get a dog. What is best about this is how the Bitches manage to make attempted cat murder sound so sweet and innocent, when some of the lyrics are a little bit dark.
Taking a different angle, ‘Let’s Fuck’ is a lust-ridden Elastica meets Yeah Yeah Yeahs alternative dancefloor riot. Short and sweet, it’s energetic and exciting; a sort of musical prozac, if you will, as it’s pretty much impossible not to smile whilst this is playing.
The final contribution from the Bitches on this split single is ‘Hot Pie’; a shouty, scuzzy minute and a half of fun and one of the standout tracks on this whole record.
The Lovely Eggs are another duo, this time one girl, one guy and from Lancaster, not LDN. They’re also a little stranger than TSHB, but in an entirely good way. I’m always intrigued by songs that are twenty seconds long, so on seeing the track length of ‘Mix Dan’ appearing on my computer screen, I had to listen to it straight away. What I got was a list of the different species of owl. Which, you have to admit, is pretty spectacular. In fact, the first three tracks from the Lovely Eggs hint that they’re slightly obsessed with birds, with ‘I Like Birds (But I Like Other Animals Too)’ and ‘Jon Carling’ both repeatedly mentioning the feathery creatures. Other subject matters covered by the Lovely Eggs include getting shoes dirty at farms (the 15 second ‘Dirty At Farms’, which sounds like the foundations of an Art Brut demo), parties and mass suicide (‘I’m Having a Party’) and ‘Cops and Robbers’; a nursery rhyme-esque 10 seconds. And then, to top it all off, the record finishes with 15 seconds of what sounds like birds singing. But a little speeded up. Obviously.
Standout Tracks: The Sexual Hot Bitches – Kitty / The Lovely Eggs – I Like Birds (But I Like Other Animals Too)
Rhian Daly
