Hecuba – 'Paradise' review
If a lazy BBC Three comedy duo – let’s, for argument’s sake, call them Matthew Horne and James Corden – were to write a sketch sending up hipster electro boy/girl duos, they’d probably pen some ludicrous lyrics and then sing them, out of tune and out of time, over some tinny, melody-free synths, with a cowbell somewhere for good measure.
They could do that, although less effort would be spent, and the same effect achieved, by hiring Hecuba, a real hipster electro boy/girl duo whose debut album is as loveable as swine flu. Faced with over-earnest bedroom-electro twaddle from the outset, the much-needed levity and good playing on the final two tracks offers a glimmer of hope, but nothing can really redeem this utterly forgettable, lifeless piffle.
2/10
