V V Brown - Samson and Delilah
I'm struggling to remember a more drastic change of musical style (although last year's passing glimpse of Charlotte Church that I made raised an eyebrow). The debut in 2009 of Travelling Like the Light from VV Brown (I understand she's now V V but I've stuck with VV and I ignored V. V. so deal with it) may not quite have seized the UK public and enamoured us all, but it certainly had a fairly unique sense of sound. What cynics wrote off as wobbly-pop may more accurately have been labelled as a heavily retro, highly energetic love letter to Motown. Of course I struggle to remember some tracks, but they peaked with Shark in the Water . To this day, it is my fourth most-played song in over 7 years of last.fm use, and I'd cite it as quite comfortably one of the best ten songs of the noughties. It is beautiful, and fun, and reminds me of a pretty great summer I had that year. Brown looked set to continue that trend with the release of the nursery rhyme sampl...