Fischerspooner - Emerge

A dirty writhing snake of a tune, this. There's something fantastically decadent about it that I suspect comes from the tone of the vocals which sound both urgent and detached in a very jaded way. The lyrics are essentially meaningless, it's all about the tone. Fischerspooner were briefly tipped for stardom at the start of this decade, but seemed a bit too desperate for it. I recall hearing lead man Casey Spooner offered to blow everyone in the NME offices to get on the cover, horribly unhygienic work. For an outfit that traded on their image as decadent electro sultans, their coolness was fatally undercut by their desperation for fame. That and this was their only decent tune.