Tim: There’s a new Poptronik album out, a reliably decent electropop compilation that last year introduced us to, amongst others, Bright Light Bight Light. And now this, from an Italian bloke who brought it out in April.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFnBoVTXpg8
Tom: After living in London for four years, I reckon I can name every place used as a background in that video. It seems strange to film in so many iconic locations and reduce them to depth-of-field blur – but never mind. The music.
Tim: The music indeed, and what a lovely track it is, don’t you think? Things I like include: the occasional dropping of the American singing accent so we hear his normal voice, the strings, the bass note before the key change, the extra vocals after the key change, and the key change itself.
Tom: Especially that key change. I wasn’t convinced by that track before it came along.
Tim: Right, and it’s weird how suddenly hearing the key change made me pay attention to it – I was sat at work with this on in the background, not paying a huge amount of attention to it, and then when the key change came along I put my head up in surprise, thought “wow”, and definitely didn’t scrape a screwdriver along a replacement display I’d just fitted to a customer’s laptop.
Tom: Definitely?
Tim: Oh, definitely. Probably. Maybe. ANYWAY, it’s not that it necessarily makes it a better song, it just draws your attention to how good it already is. Admittedly it’s not perfect – the first chorus could perhaps be livened up slightly, just to give the impression of actually being the chorus – but by and large this is a lovely track.