I finally got to watching Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World with a mate on Saturday*. It was surprisingly hilarious, especially since it had the mock-affable, contrivedly shy Micahel Cera, who managed to overcome his nerdy guitarist pidgeonhole, even while playing a nerdy … bassist. Speaking of, the soundtrack was BOSS. Metric and Frank Black contirubted to the cuteness, while Rolling Stones and T. Rex added some welcome old school sleaziness. Biggest surprise, however, was the fictional band, Sex Bob-omb**. The Beck-orchestrated and lyricised, trained-for-the-movie 3 piece had all the dusty specks of Beck’s low-fi efforts, but with a sunny, apathetic joysiness as authentic as any real band. Also, girl drummer, so. Best song? ‘Threshold’***:

Sex Bob-omb - Threshold by JIMSON2220

*So cool to see Mary-Elizabeth Winstead in something that’s not the laughably AMAZING ‘Sky High’, or her bra. Or anything remotely ‘Final Destination’ related, to be honest

**Based on the Super Mario character Bob-omb, and Tom Jones’ over-40’s-NYE-party-ubiquitous ‘Sex Bomb’. I know, right

***Although arguably, ‘Threshold’s the chirpy 8-bit remix, which perfectly references their video-game namesake