Tim: “Deeper is a song about helping someone who has reached the bottom – because you believe in them,” says vocalist Kenneth Gutterup, 25% of this Norwegian band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ8uCpcc1W0
Tom: What an odd video. I wonder how many of their younger fans recognise what analogue film is?
Tim: Oh, let’s not go there. They’ve previously been doing mostly rock stuff, but this seems to be their first ‘proper’ single, for what that’s worth, and it’s fairly dancey instead. By and large, I really like this – I doubt you’ll need me to specify the bits I don’t like, but since they’re not a massive disjoint that spoils the rest of the song I can live with them easily enough.
Tom: I know the bits you mean — the not-quite-dubstep, almost guttural sounds — but I thought they worked rather well, myself. As, indeed, does the rest of the song: a decent dance beat, and a melody that’s varied enough and pleasant enough that I find myself nodding my head along.
Tim: Hmm. I might not choose to play it all that often, mind, but based on this I can imagine them bringing out a decent album, and if they did I wouldn’t skip over this.