16. I Monster - The Blue Wrath (Bloated... from Shaun of the Dead)

Sheffield’s electronic trail-blazers I Monster first reached our wider delighted ears with the hit single ’Daydream in Blue’ back in 2001. The track has gone on to enjoy a long and labyrinthine life with regular appearances in films and tv shows as well as major ad campaigns around the world. The song was recently sampled and covered to great effect by Lupe Fiasco and featured Jill Scott. Other notable hits via film, tv and commercials include ’Hey Mrs!’, ’Who is She?’, ’These Are Our Children’, ’The Blue Wrath’ and ’Heaven’; all of which appear on the album “NeveroddoreveN“. This album opens with a brand new remix of Daydream by French electro/dance/rock outfit The Penelopes bringing a continental dynamic and a touch of Parisienne cool. The album collects all other mixes of the track, both previously released with the original single mix (also included here), and previously unreleased. Elsewhere the album collects hitherto unavailable mixes of other classics such as ’Hey Mrs!’ (which features fellow Sheffield icon Richard Hawley on guitar), another song to have enjoyed a life of reinvigoration in tv ads and tv shows across the globe and ’Who Is She?’ which is currently wowing Russian audiences in a commercial for a glorious-looking chocolate confection. Pay particular attention to the ’Lesbian Lovers mix’ which is sung by the unfeasibly and effortlessly sexy French chanteuse Marion Benoist. Marion crops up again (you wish) on ’The Backseat of My Car’. The album is rounded off with the very version of The Blue Wrath that so memorably opened the hit movie Shaun of the Dead. Download from iTunes UK: Download from iTunes US: