#34: TRUE STEPPERS FEATURING DANE
BOWERS & VICTORIA BECKHAM
“Out Of Your Mind”
from the album True Stepping
Released: November 2000
Although the single of “Out Of Your Mind” actually came out in August of 2000, and was promptly beaten to number one by Spiller and Sophie Ellis-Bextor by a margin of 20,000 copies OH STOP THIS SODDING SUB-WIKIPEDIA SHORROCKS look, you had to know what the autumn of 2000 was like west of London; that unusually concentrated glow of golden blithely foreshadowing the end of things (which in one very important way it did). “Black Coffee” by All Saints and Kid A by Radiohead both indicated the same, hesitantly radiant shadows. They called it speed garage and this was its service station deluxe artistic manifestation, sounding agreeably rootless in its triple phantom keyboard stabs as the two singing astronauts found themselves floating in the listener’s space. Yes you did, one of them accuses, no I didn’t, you’re mad, retorts the other. The accuser was the group member you knew and recognised most but was given hardly any solo features. The two sides rotate around each other’s orbits like grumpy satellites and all involved are keen to follow Faust’s advice and not take roots. “Ice Cream, you’re out of your mind,” intones the country’s then most famous woman as if she’s just won the National Lottery. Poing, boing, this tune has punished you.
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