Tom: The next single off Random Access Memories, and a new video. And hey – it’s a good three minute track!
Tom: …stretched out to five and a half minutes.
Tim: Yeahhh… after about three and a half minutes I was pretty much just waiting for it to finish. And then when it did, it was in a very dull manner indeed.
Tom: The extreme effects applied to the voice make it sound like a Hot Chip record — and why you’d get the lead vocalist of the Strokes in and then cover his voice in so much distortion, I’ve no idea.
Tim: Only reason I can think is: just for the name. Which is surely only necessary if you’re not already a big name, but then Daft Punk are arguably bigger than he is.
Tom: And I don’t know if the video was meant to be actually tear-jerking or just mawkish or melodramatic: I certainly got the latter.
Tim: I’ll be honest: I kind of stopped paying attention the first time, and I can’t be bothered to sit through the song again just to see the video.
Tom: The chorus is absolutely brilliant, the rest of the track a bit plodding: and even that’d be okay if it didn’t outstay its welcome. But it really, really does.
Tim: I’m actually not that enthused about the chorus, but I can’t disagree with the rest of that.