Today’s Song: AlunaGeorge ‘Attracting Flies’

“Attracting Flies” is another brilliant single from British R&B future-retroists AlunaGeorge. With each track (including my favorite single of 2012, “Your Drums, Your Love”), they hone their craft of sounding simultaneously familiar (like from the early ’90s) and alien. It’s true for their production and their lyrics, which are based on cliches to form something slightly more abstract. Instead of saying, “You’re talking shit,” in her naturally speedy voice, Aluna Francis sings, “Little gray fairy tales and little white lies / Everything you exhale is attracting flies.” So Britishly polite. More »