MUSIC FROM SPACE: The Broken Hearts - BLACK CAT

(Yes, this is a re-post, from May. But nobody was reading the site back then. Besides, it's Halloween, and this is just about the most Halloweeny song around.)

The Broken Hearts are Nisha Thirkell and Amber Jane Butchart, two rather improbably glamorous young ladies. They work in a trendy London vintage clothing store, design their own clothes and jewelery, and have become UK fashion gurus in their own right. They are performance artists and club DJs. Oh, and they just happen to front a little band that's earning rave reviews, with London's Guardian declaring that they are the prime movers - and only members, so far - in a scene the paper dubbed "nu burlesque." (Seriously, there's no way two people could cram that much coolness into every day. Do Thirkell and Butchart actually exist, or is their band bio just copy off the back of the box of one of those Bratz London Punk dolls?)

Their 2007 single Black Cat is both bouncy and slinky, which is really pretty tricky to pull off. The video is reminiscent of one of those trippy old Fleisher Bros. cartoons, with Thirkell and Butchart as two live-action, pin-up doll magicians vying for the attention of a cartoon cat with strange powers. Black cat is coming!




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