Pitchfork

Like Kylie's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" for the age of a gajillion mp3 blogs, Little Boots' "Stuck on Repeat" is sultry, bouncy, catwalk-ready electropop with an earworm hook about earworm hooks. Produced by Joe Goddard of Hot Chip, "Stuck on Repeat" also shares its theme (and implicit critique) of mindless repetition with one of that UK group's finest singles, 2006's "Over and Over". Blackpool, England's own Little Boots has a name that would've made Caligula blush-- actually, that name is what "Caligula" means-- and sure enough, "Stuck on Repeat" now and then sadistically withholds the satisfaction of the Moroder-on-Neptune synth-groove hook we desire all the way through. Just as the track begins to break off into a gauzy, percussion-less section with layered backing vocals, sole Little Boots member Victoria Hesketh (formerly of synth-rock trio Dead Disco), sings, "Every time I try to break free/ Something comes along to intervene." Something does intervene, and soon the hook-- how'd they say it on the H.O.R.D.E. tour?-- brings us back. Quick, somebody post about how this track is stuck on repeat.

MP3:> Little Boots: "Stuck on Repeat"
[from the "Stuck on Repeat" single; out now as a white label]