RIP Stylus.

Here's my final bit of writing for the Singles Jukebox:

Lillix – Sweet Temptation
Out of everything that the Singles Jukebox has introduced me to, what should I write about? Maybe something like Saul Williams’ “Black Stacey” which I would have been too reverse-snobbish to ever listen to, figuring it to be worthy anti-fun. Or perhaps “Snook, Svett och Tårar” by Snook; Euro-pop lounge-rap that I would never have imagined could exist without William bringing it to my attention. But I think the track that has stayed with me most, the one I’ve listened to loudest and longest and drunkest, is “Sweet Temptation” the one great track by a bunch’ve Canadians initially carelessly assembled as a girl-group cash in on the Avril Lavigne sound. I mean, is their name meant to be reminiscent of tampons? “Sweet Temptation” manages the perfect cheap trick of gluing together hissing disco four-to-the-floor drums, wavering sequencer blat, lumbering ‘rock bass’, power chords and alternately diffident and commanding chants into some of the stickiest, sweetest bubblegum since The Sweet or The Runaways or whoever your ugly-glam faves are. “Alright, alright, yeah I heard it before” they sing, and alright yeah I have, but never as addictively as this.