Tim: Smith & Thell have been gone a while doing songwriting for other people and stuff, but now they’ve decided to have another go at the front and centre action, albeit with less electronic stuff and more banjos. Hmm.
Tim: I say ‘Hmm’, that’s purely because that’s typically the wrong direction to go in as far as I’m concerned; however, here they’ve done a very good job of the folk pop.
Tom: Oh, it can be done very well — but it requires just as much production and effort as any dance track.
Tim: It’s chirpy and upbeat like it’s meant to be and not overly saccharine, which is nice.
Tom: Right: there’s clearly a bit of 2003 Aviici influence in here, and I suspect that a bit more of that is exactly what it needs. I found myself drifting away during the verses; even that last chorus couldn’t quite bring me back.
Tim: The “oh-oh-oh-etc”s in the chorus are good, as ever, provided something to sing along to without worrying about the whole words thing. For me it goes just a little to far right at the end with the sense of ‘look how tiny I can make these notes seem’, but other than that: all good.