Beth Ditto Is A Musician Once Again

noah | April 27, 2009 1:30 pm

The studio version of the Gossip’s new single “Heavy Cross”–teased last week in this space–is now streaming from the band’s MySpace page. The nervous interplay between the twitchy disco guitars and Beth Ditto’s strangely neutered voice sounds straight out of a freestyle comp –but then the rest of the band kicks in, and… well, if you liked “Standing In The Way Of Control” but thought that it just didn’t sound flattened-out enough, “Heavy Cross” may be for you.

The meanest-but-probably-truest commentary comes from a Stranger reader: “ditto should have spent more time writing songs rather than hobnobbing with kate moss and becoming a joke.”

GOSSIP [MySpace; HT Jordan P.]