Two tracks of the day today!

Somehow you know that with a name like Charlotte Hatherley, you ain’t going to get some kind of Slipknot derivative. Likewise, you ain’t going to get some R&B / Pop / Diva type either. What you get instead are the first two singles from Charlotte’s debut album Grey Will Fade due out in August 2004.

Charlotte is the pretty one from Ash and these two tracks sound a lot like The Primitives if they’d, um, been Ash instead. I think I know what I mean. Kim Wilde is the more bouncy of the two tracks, with some lovely wiggily guitar work, effects and start / stop drum patterns (think sub-50 Foot Wave) which syncopate with the guitar work. Plus you get some “ba-ba-baa-oos” which is to be expected for something as shimmery as this. Summer is a little more traditional. This time you get some “who-a”’s instead.

Download Kim Wilde for free from her website.