Let’s buy Happiness, Fast Fast Lyrics.

Fastfast is the first release of 2011 for Geordie lovelies Let’s Buy Happiness through their label Ghost Arc Records on 28th Feb and c’or it’s a corker! Featuring a video shot in the Lake District (on a rather frosty looking bleak day) this track breaks through the winter gloom-

The five-piece have been going for little more than a year, but have already grabbed the attention of the powers-that-be at 6Music, including Tom Robinson, Lauren LaVerne and Huw Stephens. Not only that, they’ve played a host of high profile gigs, including the John Peel Stage at last year’s Glasto. Not bad for a band who are completely DIY and still in their relative infancy.

Fastfast bounces into being with a flurry of drum beats that sound like a tribal call to arms; the real treat comes on the first note of singer Sarah Hall’s questioning voice as she sings above a delicate blanket of guitar chords and picking…

Much has been made of Hall’s vocal styling which draws on influences as varied as Edith Piaf and minimalist contemporaries like The XX. The sound however is entirely her own; “I’ve always sounded like that- they told me when I tried to join the choir at school I’d be better off singing somewhere else”… No less impressive is the band that backs her; James and Graeme blend seamlessly to create an ethereal body for sarah’s vocal melodies, with bassist Mark and drummer James providing the song’s pulse. Instrumental highs and lows add emotion to a song lyrically ambiguous, and provide that chink of sunshine that Hall’s chilled-voice otherwise subdues.

The result is of course infectiously catchy, and remarkably beautiful. Let’s Buy Happiness are currently on the ‘Fastfast tour’- check their myspace for dates. Find out more about singer, Sarah Hall here in an interview with Creature about her work as an illustrator.

Words: Betty
Image: Sarah Hall
Video: fastfast- Let’s Buy Happiness (Ghost Arc Records, 2011) courtesy of the band.