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  • February 27, 2007
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Here's your first listen anywhere of 'Out Of Control (Song For Mutya)', by Groove Armada and Mutya Buena. (Mutyarmada for future reference). 

{mp3}mutyarmada{/mp3}

Blimey.

What you don't really get a sense of from the 45-second clip is the way the song unfolds over the course of its four-minute duration. (The last sixty seconds are almost com­pletely instru­mental, for example, and make perfect sense.) Nor do you get some of the cute verse lyrics, like this one: 

"She's got that girlie style you said you hated and you said was vile — that 'look at me, I'm so vacant' smile. I guess you like it now, huh?"

Like we said the other day, you only get about three com­pletely standout, utterly of-their-time pop songs each year, and this is one of them.

(FYI if you head over to the band's MySpace page there are some amusing blogs from the band — the latest features the phrase "Mutya came over twice to record and both times she had battered sausage and chips" — plus a clip of their new single 'Get Down'.)

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