Thursday, 23 October 2025

It's Grimandi up north

"And give my warm regards to spring
It's nuffin' personal, but this changes everyfing"


Real Lies - Let The Lips Fall Where They May
(From Let The Lips Fall Where They May single; 2025)



Nobody is currently making better surburbaquatic electronic music than the Pet Shop Sad Bois AKA North Circular 17 AKA Real Lies. Let The Lips Fall Where They May dropped in August and was Real Lies' tribute to sticky summers in London. But as a London-born Scorpio lad who became a northerner it makes more sense in the nippy marmalade sunsets of October to ur boi Martinelli. There's very little which makes me patriotic about this silly little island of serfs than British electronic dance music and our penchant for banter about the weather.

I reckon Let The Lips Fall Where They May is the best Real Lies song of 2025 so far, and it only proves that Kev Last Kahras & Pumpin' Patrice should release a compilation of the best Real Lies non-album songs. Obviously the album would include songs like Valentine, Oh Me, Oh My (Nicotine Patch), I Wander, Rare Rapport etc. Ideally, the compilation would also include a studio version of The Lonely Ones from their lockdown livestream. Shit, even a rip of the live performance of it would suffice tbqh.

2 comments:

Yohan said...

Real Lies has quicky become one of my favourite non rap acts since you put me on to them. Would love to see them live someday.

I think John's music blog put me on this one by Vlure I like too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ybWH5YxMv8&list=RD9ybWH5YxMv8&start_radio=1

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

They're good live. And they do shows on the continent. They've even played in Australia 🤯