The Airborne Toxic Event - Happiness is Overrated
If you are looking for a new band that all the cool kids are going to love then these are the guys for you. Just don't expect anything groundbreaking.
| 01 Jun 2009
Single title:
Happiness is Overrated
Artist:
The Airborne Toxic Event
Label:
Mercury Records
Release date:
8 Jun
It takes a lot of guts to start a single with an acapella, but The Airborne Toxic Event's lead singer Mikel Jollet seems to pull it off. Once the rest of the band get involved, however, Happiness is Overrated becomes an indie dancefloor hit in the making. In juxtaposition with the lyrics, which evoke the painful emotions of a love gone sour, this strikes an interesting note of discord. The Airborne Toxic Event are being hyped to high heaven at the moment; this is understandable when obvious echoes of Franz Ferdinand and The Strokes come to the fore. It looks like scenester kids might have found a new group to model themselves on.