Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - The Logic Of Chance
As fun as always, and if it makes you think about ways to be a better person, then that’s a plus.
We all love to be rebellious, right? Banksy - now he’s a naughty little tyke isn’t he, spraying pseudo-intellectual home truths all over tax payer’s garage doors. But his work is popular, he’s probably the most popular graphic artist of our time, which implies that his off-centre messages must be more mainstream than perhaps he anticipated. When something countercultural becomes popular, surely that makes it just plain cultural, therefore annihilating it’s original rebelliousness and with it, some of the appeal?
The same logic can be applied to Messers Pip and Sac, whose debut single ‘Thou Shalt Always Kill’ appealed to exactly the sort of people who read NME, judge a book by its cover and, catch 22, stop liking a band just because they’ve become popular. Scroobius Pip’s lyrics somehow straddle the boundary between frank, esoteric discussion of modern taboos and self-righteous preaching – you know and accept that you’re being morally lectured by beardy ex-HMV staffers but the messages are reassuringly close-to-home, as though the tutting conscience in your head has been remixed to dance beats.
'Logic of Chance' doesn’t really go beyond the remit of their debut 'Angles', with Pip providing disparaging social commentary on 'Great Britain' and 'Last Train Home' over Dan Le Sac’s infectious backtracks. 'Five Minutes', the duet of an abused spouse and her regretful, he-so-had-it-coming Ex-husband (ex in the dead parrot sense) causes the same lump in the throat as their previous album’s title track, which recounts the murder of a security guard from both perspectives, and self-harmers-harm-others anthem 'Magicians Assistant'. 'Cauliflower' is the poppiest of the bunch, with Kid A upping the radio-friendly sex-appeal, but falls short of 'The Beat That My Heart Skipped''s sing-along catchiness. Perhaps this is just a personal quibble, but the first single 'Get Better' would benefit greatly from an anglicised backing vocal pronunciation of ‘better’ to fit with Pip’s distinctive Essex twang.
Although 'Logic of Chance' doesn’t really break any new boundaries, the Essex pair’s ‘lit-hop’ (a term coined in their press release) is as fun as always and if it makes you think about ways to be a better person, then that’s a plus.
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