Music review: Gossip- Listen Up

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Gossip – Listen Up

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Author: MyVillage

Gossip – Listen Up

Release date: Out now

Format: Single
Genre: Indie
Our Rating: 4/5

Feet tapping from the word go…as the world adores Beth Ditto! Catchy chorus accompanied by her whining growl makes this single an instant hit. Ditto may have a super size character, ahem. But musically there’s no doubt she is larger than life. If this doesn’t get your butt off the seat then Listen Up!

Priya, MyVillage

Press release
Hit sensations Gossip follow up the rightful Top Ten hit ‘Standing In The Way Of Control’ (the most played record for two weeks running on Radio One) with another anthemic and hopelessly addictive punk/soul number, ‘Listen Up!’.

Taken from the gold album Standing In The Way of Control, with over 100,000 copies sold in the UK alone, Gossip have seriously arrived in 2007! These days, our glorious homegirl Beth Ditto might be making new friends with the likes of Kate Moss and Jarvis Cocker (Beth’s NME Awards duet was unforgettable), but it would be foolish to forget that Gossip will forever remain a rebel band of survivors who spread a heartfelt message of liberty and action. Listen and learn…..

After the storming success of the Soulwax remix of ‘Standing In The Way of Control’, as heard on Channel 4’s Skins, ‘Listen Up!’ seriously takes things up a notch with a briliant set of mixes including a cowbell riding stormer from MSTRKRFT. Tronik Youth (London mash-up king Neil Parnell) elicits deep disco pressure and further remixes by Touché, Trevor Jackson and Punks Jump Up completing a devastating

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