Pop Music Notes

Can there be a better way to wake up in the morning than to find the new Bright Light Bright Light video has debuted? The buzz around Rod Thomas has become deafening in the past few months in certain circles, and now that he has been signed as one of two debut artists to Popjustice’s HiFi label, Rod is ready for his closeup. In fact, we will take any close up we can get, and the video for “Love Part II” delivers. It’s a low-budget affair, but the video is still a classy effort. Truthfully, we could sit and watch a four-minute clip of Rod singing right to the camera, and just seeing the joy in his face as he sings “I’m in love again” would be enough, but the masses want a hook. You can picture this video playing immediately after Kylie Minogue’s “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” with the caption “In another part of the city…”

“Love Part II” is released in the UK on September 12th. If there is any justice in the world, it should be a Top 10 smash.