While she's busy with her own bands The Catenary Wires and Swansea Sound, Amelia Fletcher has somehow found the time to add her lovely vocals to a new single from Swedish pop act Red Sleeping Beauty. "Solid Gold", out today via the estemmed Matinée Recordings label, is far and away this week's best new track.
A taster from an upcoming EP from the band, one which will also feature Mary Wyer from Even As We Speak, "Solid Gold" is pure bliss to these ears. Fletcher's voice carries this into a special space, and one can almost imagine it's 1989 again or something. Still, this is bright and smart, less a deliberate bit of throwback business, and just a damn good pop song. Amelia Fletcher's guest vocals certainly give it a quality that's uniquely wonderful.
"Amelia is a teenage hero of ours and the indie goddess" according to Niklas Angergård of Red Sleeping Beauty. "After having written 'Solid Gold' I could only hear her voice singing it, so I gathered courage and asked. And here we are! Her vocals are, as always, solid gold."
Hear it and buy it for yourself via Matinée Recordings now.
More details on Red Sleeping Beauty via the band's Bandcamp page.