Tim: If I say ‘stop me if you’ve heard this before’, you’ll stop me, so I won’t. We first wrote about this last July, when it came out initially mostly as a demo, with a horrific rap from a bloke calling himself ‘Sunshine Gillz’. Fortunately, that version’s been taken off YouTube, it’s been rerecorded with a slightly different line up, given a production makeover and now it’s much much better. So let’s go again, shall we?
Tom: Well, that sounds like a proper track at last.
Tim: Doesn’t it just? I pointed out last time it could have come straight from 2003; you rightly pointed out that that’s not necessarily a compliment given that that was now a decade ago. However, as part of aforementioned overhaul they’ve stuck a bit of extra bass and stuff on there and actually now it seems, well, mostly 2003 and slightly 2014.
Tom: Yep, those synth pads are 2003, but at least it sounds modern now. YouTube’s overcompressed it a bit, as it sometimes does — this is the kind of track that needs a full-on club speaker system to be heard properly.
Tim: Best thing, though, is that it doesn’t have a rapper over the middle eight. Or, in fact, any middle eight at all, being as it is just two verses and a lot of choruses. That’s no problem that I see, though, because when I’m jumping around on the dance floor I’m not generally appreciating musical structure.
Tom: Fair point, and it doesn’t seem to lose anything from missing it.
Tim: No. Well, unless you look at it as a missed opportunity to do something potentially awesome. But here it’s a deliberately skipped opportunity to do something horrific, so it’s actually okay. ALL MENDED WELL DONE.