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I have a magpie approach to music in that I’m always looking for something I haven’t heard before that is shiny and exciting to my ears: if it doesn't have magic in it I won’t use it. I made my own world in this record, I’m proud of it and I think it sounds quite unique”.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Greco Roman","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50382299234635,"sku":"2216003","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Unfamiliar_Skin_5736dd1b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726247526"},{"product_id":"my-baby-just-cares-for-me-inc-rheinzand-decius-remixes","title":"My Baby Just Cares for Me (Inc. 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Be With Records love pop music. You’ve probably noticed. Witness their vinyl love-ins with Kylie, Róisín and Cassie if this has somehow passed you by. So when Lou Hayter (London-based musician, style-DJ to the stars, one of our besties) asked us to put her sumptuous funk-lite hit \u003ci\u003eCherry On Top\u003c\/i\u003e on vinyl it felt like a neat fit. But this isn’t just any old Be With record. They decided such a monumental track would make the perfect inaugural release on Be Pop, the new, most likely sporadically active, side-label. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor those not paying attention in 2005, Lou Hayter was the keyboardist in Mercury nominated electro- pop outfit New Young Pony Club (who were a really good band, beyond the hype, and arguably a little ahead of their time) and she is currently one half of electronic duo Tomorrow’s World, a project with Air’s Jean-Benoît Dunckel. Her comeback single \u003ci\u003eCherry On Top\u003c\/i\u003e originally appeared in late October 2018, but as a digital only concern. Unsurprisingly it caused a blog stir (Gorilla vs Bear correctly gushed) and what seemed like 6 Music’s entire roster of DJs had it on repeat. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut it’s not a proper single unless you can buy it in a record shop. So accordingly It's issued as a full picture sleeve 12\", pressed on white vinyl. And just to make certain, the instrumental and a cappella are on the flip. This is a homage to the classic dance\/pop 12\" singles of the late 80s and early 90s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRiding an infectious sample of Marc Jordan’s yacht-rock classic \u003ci\u003eGeneralities\u003c\/i\u003e, it’s a glistening, sun- soaked daydreamy jam, perfect for convertibles, pool parties, and roller-discos. It’s quite delicious. Whilst it’s pop without question, it wouldn’t be a Lou Hayter track without ice-cool nods to other magical genres; with Italo flecks and dream-pop vocals, this is cherry coloured funk indeed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCherry On Top\u003c\/i\u003e screams “Mighty Summer Pop Radio Anthem”. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Be Pop \/ Be With Records","offers":[{"title":"White | 12\"","offer_id":50457430393163,"sku":"1074656","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/570cf666-2528-4081-9142-3e02c86a1e3c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727205343"},{"product_id":"private-sunshine","title":"Private Sunshine","description":"\u003cp\u003eEffortlessly hopscotching between vintage acid and 80s Rn’B, insouciant Francophone pop and twinkling electro house, Lou Hayter has delivered something at once utterly unique and defiantly timeless with her much anticipated debut solo LP, released on Skint Records. It has been a long time coming for London native Hayter, who first made her mark professionally as keyboardist for New Young Pony Club, one of the bands at the epicentre of the white hot day-glo nu rave scene alongside the likes of the Klaxons and Test Icicles in 2006. But, to fully place her debut album in context, it is necessary to rewind a little bit – to the very beginning in fact, with Hayter growing up on a diet of Bowie, Prince, Human League and Jellybean-era Madonna while concomitantly learning classical piano from the age of five. The flames of this deliciously varied musical palette were further stoked by trips to record shops in Soho with her brother (Soul Jazz was a particular obsession), but it was while studying in Cambridge that the match was well and truly struck – she used her student grant to buy a set of Technics and started putting on club nights, before moving to London and working at Trevor Jackson’s seminal Output Recordings, placing Hayter smack bang in the middle of all the action, with disco punk fever hitting full force and bands like the Rapture and LCD Soundsystem first breaking out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hugely successful, Mercury-nominated New Young Pony Club followed shortly after, but it’s through her subsequent output that she started to distil and refine her idiosyncratic tastes. And certainly, you can hear hints of both the New Sins, the 80’s New Wave duo she formed with Nick Phillips, and Tomorrow’s World, the swooning Gallic pop act she fronts alongside Air’s JB Dunckel, in her remarkable debut. Full to bursting with evocative electro-soul love letters to her home town of London alongside addictive disco torch ballads, it’s like Kylie meeting Mr Fingers or, Jam and Lewis producing Jane Birkin – something beautiful and melancholic yet sharply modern and new. From the warm, woozy, lysergic harmonies of opener “Cherry on Top”, which sound like a beloved old cassette unravelling, to the fizzy, infectious “Cold Feet”, which calls to mind Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam at their most heartworn, taken in toto the album perfectly nails the essence of gorgeously nostalgic synth-pop with a twist; crisp, stylish and sophisticated music which heralds the next chapter of Lou Hayter quite nicely, actually. 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