Not Many Experts

Watching the way that Trophy Wife have been blowing up since the beginning of summer has slowly been convincing us more and more that when we originally posted about them and declined to declare that they would be “huge within months” because it was too early, we probably should have just said it. In June 3 or 4 blogs had covered them. Nowadays, you’d struggle to find a major UK-based music web site that hasn’t fallen for them.

Forget digital media, record labels have rightly been showing a lot of interest – and the legendary launching pad of singles label Moshi Moshi is releasing “Microlite” backed by “Take This Night” on November 8th, and you should pre-order yours here. Not that I want to get anybody excited or anything, if you read back our original post you’d understand how uncontroversial and grounded we usually are, but it’s worth mentioning that Moshi Moshi released early singles by Bloc Party, Florence & The Machine, Hot Chip, Friendly Fires*… To be clear; they’ve an immaculate reputation so it probably wouldn’t be too far off the mark to suggest that labels with slightly more money might be having a look and wondering if they can get Trophy Wife to sign… But I’m still not going to speculate any more than that, so I’ll say no more. In fact, I’ll stop altogether and instead leave you with this pristine acoustic rendition of “Microlite” that replaces the melancholy disco groove of the original with a forlorn orchestral substitute. And we quite like it. You know, it’s ok like. (Are we still avoiding hyperbole?) This band are going to be important.

Trophy Wife – Microlite (Acoustic)

The surprisingly actually-worth-watching-video is below and how’s this for some useless trivia – my mate ran into them in Oxford when they were shooting this, and apparently they mentioned this here website, and I’m not going to pretend I’m not slightly surprised/pleased. I guess you could call it smug, but in the best possible way, of course.

*PS, if you’re in need of being brought back down to earth, they’ve also released singles by Team Water Polo and Yeti.