If You’ll Be Mine

BABYBIRD: “If You’ll Be Mine” (Echo)

And so the debate resumes. Stephen Jones: a songwriting genius for the post-pop 90s or a Fagan-like chancer too clever for his clogs? It’s hard to tell from this ostensibly simple love song just how far his tongue is lodged in his cheek but I can say that he still sounds like Ian McCulloch, only without the guile.