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Bad news for fans of terrible music

  • December 18, 2009
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There's no easy way to break this to you readers but we went to RCA yesterday and we heard an extraordin­ary new Hoosiers song.

NO WAIT COME BACK.

It's called 'Choices' and it sounds a bit like a less 80s version of La Roux with warmer synths
and a bloke singing. It doesn't really sound anything like The Hoosiers
at all — it's more like the sort of song you'd pick to launch an electro boyband but it's a good grown up pop song at the same time. The chorus is a chant of "stop giving me choices, stop giving me choices" and as a whole the song's really exciting and euphoric and next-year-sounding, with big melodies pinning the whole thing down.

Basically, do you remember the annoy­ingly catchy bits of the first Hoosiers album? Right, well imagine those song­writ­ing skillz used for GOOD instead of EVIL. That is what 'Choices' is like. It's actually, object­ively brilliant, and to these ears sounds like the first unex­pec­tedly amazing comeback single of 2010*.

We appre­ci­ate this news, that The Hoosiers have recorded at least one song that doesn't make you want to throttle someone, might upset some fans of depress­ingly bad guitar music but, on the bright side, Scouting For Girls have a new album out in 2010 and we bet that's a real stinker so fingers crossed for that one, right?

* It might not be the first single but it should be**.
** Unless their other new songs are better but that seems rather unlikely as this is, at the end of the day, still The Hoosiers we're talking about.

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