Logo
DiS Needs You: Save our site »
  • Logo_home2
  • Records
  • In Depth
  • In Photos
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Search
  • Community
  • Records
  • In Depth
  • Blog
  • Community

THIS SITE HAS BEEN ARCHIVED AND CLOSED.

Please join the conversation over on our new forums »

If you really want to read this, try using The Internet Archive.

Tom Vek

C-C (You Set The Fire In Me)

Label: Tummy Touch Release Date: 20/06/2005

8699
Mike_Diver by Mike Diver June 22nd, 2005

What's that? Don't say Beck? Shit, sorry. Can't be helped though - just listen to this.

Tom Vek's persistent pleas for the avoidance of the B-word seem somewhat shorn of substance when the critic is presented with C-C...', a song that admittedly doesn't rob wholesale from He That Can Not Be Named, but nevertheless evokes thoughts of no one else. Its ramshackle thrift store beats 'n' breaks are immediately reminiscent of... um... oh you know.

Sorry, but this can't be summarised any other way; even the names rhyme for crying out loud. At least Vek has the decency to close out with a single-edit staggered fade that's utterly unbecoming of YouKnowWho circa 1996. File under Unlikely To Play Twice.

  • 4
    Mike Diver's Score
Log-in to rate this record out of 10
Share on
   
Love DiS? Become a Patron of the site here »


LATEST


  • Drowned in Sound's Albums of the Year 2025


  • Why Music Journalism Matters in 2024


  • Drowned in Sound is back!


  • Drowned in Sound's 21 Favourite Albums of the Year: 2020


  • Drowned in Sound to return as a weekly newsletter


  • Lykke Li's Sadness Is A Blessing



Left-arrow

The Faint

Desperate Guys

Mobback
8700

The Dirtbombs at 93 Feet East, London, South East England, Mon 20 Jun

Mobforward
Right-arrow


LATEST

    news


    Drowned in Sound's Albums of the Year 2025

  • 106149
  • news


    Why Music Journalism Matters in 2024

  • 106145

    news


    Drowned in Sound is back!

  • 106143
  • news


    Drowned in Sound's 21 Favourite Albums of the Y...

  • 106141

    news


    Drowned in Sound to return as a weekly newsletter

  • 106139
  • Playlist


    Lykke Li's Sadness Is A Blessing

  • 106138

    Festival Preview


    Glastonbury 2019 preview playlist + ten alterna...

  • 106137
  • Interview


    A Different Kind Of Weird: dEUS on The Ideal Crash

  • 106136
MORE


    DiScussion


    Guyliners: Why Do UK Festivals Have So Few Fema...

  • 97325
  • review


    At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command

  • 12223

    Interview


    Billy Corgan: "I have a problem with the way po...

  • 98775
  • Interview


    Ace of Bass: DiS Meets Royal Blood

  • 97097

    Discography Reassessed


    The Story So Far: Pere Ubu in Review

  • 100661
  • Artist 'n' Artist


    In conversation: Liars and Deerhunter

  • 40700

    review


    Coldplay - Ghost Stories

  • 95631
  • Interview


    "We became seminal for doing nothing": DiS meet...

  • 88284
MORE

Drowned in Sound
  • DROWNED IN SOUND
  • HOME
  • SITE MAP
  • NEWS
  • IN DEPTH
  • IN PHOTOS
  • RECORDS
  • RECOMMENDED RECORDS
  • ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
  • FESTIVAL COVERAGE
  • COMMUNITY
  • MUSIC FORUM
  • SOCIAL BOARD
  • REPORT ERRORS
  • CONTACT US
  • JOIN OUR MAILING LIST
  • FOLLOW DiS
  • GOOGLE+
  • FACEBOOK
  • TWITTER
  • SHUFFLER
  • TUMBLR
  • YOUTUBE
  • RSS FEED
  • RSS EMAIL SUBSCRIBE
  • MISC
  • TERM OF USE
  • PRIVACY
  • ADVERTISING
  • OUR WIKIPEDIA
© 2000-2025 DROWNED IN SOUND