Damien Hirst

Simian Mobile Disco's second album Temporary Pleasure includes guest spots from Beth Ditto, Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor, Gruff Rhys, Telepathe, and others. One of these others, Yeasayer's Chris Keating, adds his pipes to the collection's first single "Audacity Of Huge." The words? A million and one references to pop culture, art, literature, etc: The title's clearly supposed to echo The Audacity Of Hope and James Ford and Jas Shaw's lyrics/director Kate Moross' images conjure James Joyce, Damien Hirst, Mamma Cass, Peter Tosch, Joey Ramone, Bill Murray, P.M. Dawn, etc. As in the past, analog synthesizers and drum machines were used in favor of computerized gizmos. For the video shiny eye candy was used in favor of anything not dipped in ...