Once upon a time it was the jukebox that made pop music. The boys have thrown their pocket-money in and the girls have danced. Or vice versa. Indeed, the vinyl is a romantic, a sentimental medium.
And if one of the two Electric-President-singles was put in a jukebox the girls (and the boys) would dance. The buttons would soon be well-worn. It's because the songs are romantic? Partly. It's because the songs touch the very foundations of pop music: the storm and stress, the inwardness and the nonchalance, and melodies, melodies, melodies.
The universe of 24-year-old Ben Cooper from Jacksonville Beach/Florida is an echochamber with all kinds of doors that are open to small indie within big pop. All of that can also be listened to on the self-titled debut that was published recently – including these two 7inches completing this album.
