New Muscles – “My Friend Richard” (And Three Scoops Of “Ice Cream”)

6:02 PM EDT on November 1, 2007

Aussie house hit factory Muscles just dropped Stateside one of the must-have LPs of the fall in Guns Babes Lemonade. Yes it's out, and hopefully you have it and have been dancing with your shirt off to it for a good while (he'd want it that way). But in case you don't, and simply out of an overwhelming need to write something about him to reflect just how deep we're into this album, here's the LP's opening track "My Friend Richard." Deceptively straight and simple house through the verses' intro, but then we get a big dose of Muscles' vocal animus, a kooky meltdown hook, and a nasty, fist-pumping second half. If Muscles has a party everybody is invited...

Guns Babes Lemonade is out via Modular. It's got a couple of tracks you have got to know, like "Richard," "One Ince Badge Pin" "The Lake," and "Sweaty" (check the "Sweaty" video here). Listen to more at MySpace. Another GBL banga is "Ice Cream," and actually it's been a great time for the frozen confection of late -- so after the jump, three sorts of "Ice Cream," in the hands of three fairly different bands.

First, in case you missed it during our hectic CMJ coverage, Muscles doing "Ice Cream" live at Studio B...

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