Tim: Remember Yohanna? Iceland, 2009?
Tom: Um. Actually, no I didn’t, but I stand by my earlier comments: too slow, too ballad-y.
Tim: Ah. Well, let’s plough ahead with this anyway, with her here providing extra vocals for new Icelandic pairing Rok.
Tim: And she’s basically the perfect choice for a pair of two experienced guys hoping to launch themselves as a new act with a song like this. With no baggage carried over from previous work as guitar-pop singer or Eurovision songwriter, it’s a perfect example of this genre – very gentle, very calm, until it needs to develop and make an impact towards the end of the song, which it then does perfectly.
Tom: It’s still too slow and too ballad-y. Each time I think it’s going to kick itself up a notch, it just… doesn’t. The last chorus should be so much bigger than it is: instead, it’s pretty much the same as the first, only with a few extra notes over the top of it.
Tim: I’m actually going to say here pretty much what I said last time we mentioned Yohanna – I’m very glad that not all songs are like this, because if they were then (a) it’d be a very dull musical landscape and (b) it wouldn’t be nearly as great when a prime example comes along, as it has done here.
Tom: And I suppose I can agree with you on that: if this is the sort of song you’re looking for, then yes, it does the job nicely. It’s just this is never the kind of song I’m looking for.
Tim: Well I occasionally am, and this is now one I look forward to hearing when I get in after a long day and just want to scream.