I was being really whatever about No Bra, but this new single is kind of compelling. It’s monged and ambivalent-sounding and there’s a cool twittering sound. I like its quietness, in contrast to the hectoring b-side, which is called ‘No Woman No Crime’. What is it with the hectoring in this kind of music? Like as if you’re going to listen to something any harder just because someone’s shouting it at you in a queeny voice. Maybe it works for some people, but I must have gone to too many performance art shows and parties in the late 90s and permanently over-sensitized my hectoring receptors or something, as they are just not having it these days. Anyway, ‘Noise Pollution’ is as close as No Bra will probably come to actually making a song that works as a song and not as some oroborustic hipster joke that’s only funny if you make sure you don’t hear it more than about once (cf ‘Munchausen’). They edge around the idea of a song as if they’re ashamed to have made one. I like the sound it makes as they furtively skirt the edges of good and bad, effort and effortless: ominous, fluttery, tired.