LunchMoney Lewis – Bills

“This might be an absolute barnstormer over here.”

Tom: It might not have troubled the US charts on its release there a few months ago, but this hit Number 1 in Australia. It’s getting a proper release in the UK next month, and I reckon this might be an absolute barnstormer over here.

Tom: Yes, the lyrics are probably the weak point, and the video is mostly just “let’s act out those lyrics”: but let’s be honest, that’s never stopped any pop music before.

Tim: No, and I think you’re right – definitely got potential, and it’s starting to get airplay on Radio 1, always a help.

Tom: I reckon everything else about this is brilliant, and will basically be on every single “summer picnic” playlist. Walk through Hyde Park in a month or two, you’ll hear half a dozen different tinny iPhones blasting this out to each group of sunburnt hipsters.

Tim: Again, can’t disagree – there are many, many parts in there that could make up a summer hit.

Tom: There’s an incredibly catchy piano riff, a ridiculous happy trumpet solo to take you into the middle-eight; and a gorgeous vocal performance over the top of it. The production is absolutely top-notch. Even those lyrics, simple as they are, have a pretty positive message attached to them. It’s danceable, it’s sing-along-able, it’s catchy, and it’s exactly what a British chart-topping summer song sounds like.

Tim: Most notable thing, though, with a song like this: I actually really like it as well. Normally I’d be put off by the old-soundingness or whatever of it, but nope – I reckon this is just great.

Tom: Number 1? Maybe, maybe not. Top 10? I’ll be very surprised if not, and it’s really rare for me to try and call something like that.