Guillemots are pretty super-awesome, aren’t they? I’m glad we’re in agreement. While the band’s currently recording their third guaranteed-to-be-pretty-awesome album, the cute bastard mad genius frontman Fyfe Dangerfield is in the process of doing his own solo album debut. The reported name is “Fly Yellow Moon” and what minimal signs there are speculatingly point towards a 2010 release date, perhaps even early on in the year.

Why bring this rumour-mongering up? Because there’s a leak. Or a “leak”. Mr Dangerfield is being rather coy. The song is called “She Needs Me” and those who are aware of what sorts of things Fyfe likes to contribute to Guillemots have a fairly good idea what the song will be like. It’s life-affirmingly upbeat, it’s wonderfully sunshineypoppy, and most importantly it’s got a combination of funky bass, gorgeously e-bowing guitar parts, horn awesomeness and BIG string sections. BIG. It’s one big joyous pop song that’s sure to put one’s private dancing shoes on and make the said listener dance and sing along in his private quarters like a silly loon completely in love with music.

Oh yes.

On the other hand there’s also the reported lead single for the album, “Faster Than the Setting Sun” that’s also making tours in the internetospace after being aired in a radio show. It’s just as epic as “She Needs Me” but rather than being a wonderfully sunshiney piece of lovegroove, it’s a sky-soaring, dove-tailing anthem that bursts into all sorts of vibrant colour and orgasmic sound as it progresses and eventually climaxes into a gigantic outro. In other words, it’s effin fantastic.

Click the viddy after the cut for Sun, click the mp3 linky similarly after the cut for She.

MP3: She Needs Me

Tags: fyfe dangerfield, Guillemots

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