Tag: Sandra Lyng

Sandra Lyng – Blue

“Just press play and don’t read ahead.”

Tim: No intro here, just press play and don’t read ahead.

Tom: Well, that’s confusing.

Tim: You see my initial thought was to start the post with “Before you ask, Tom, no it isn’t,” except, well, it kind of is. It’s one of the weirdest tracks I’ve heard in a while, to be honest, and I’m not sure what I think of it.

It’s not a remix, it’s not sampling, it’s definitely not a cover – the closest thing I can think of is Frankee’s F U Right Back (which isn’t, as it turns out, a song worth revisiting).

Tom: “Contains an interpretation of” is, I believe, the technical term. Unexpectedly, I really like it. I don’t think I would if it didn’t have that interpretation, though: it’s doing something interesting.

Tim: Throughout the first verse, I was thinking it was a really good track – for starters, “your army is who you are” is a great lyric. Suddenly, though, when I realised what was happening, I was brought waaaay out of it, and then I noticed the similarities in the melody that skipped me by the first time, and then…well, it’s almost a novelty (and one where the lyric video person somehow can’t spell “dee”).

Tom: The newly-written sections are the dullest parts, because of course they are. I’m treating this like a Live Lounge cover: it’s not something I’d regularly listen to, but I’m glad it exists.

Tim: I don’t know if I like this or not, I genuinely don’t.

Sandra Lyng – Moonrise

“It’s like we’re steadily going back in time.”

Tim: We featured Sandra last month after she put out a video for a previous track; here’s a new track with a video for it right from the off.

Tim: And, last time we reckoned it sounded like it came out of 2013; this one I’m going to date to 2012, when everyone was jumping on the bandwagon led by Mr Saxobeat, and I’ll rate it about the same as most of those – good, but seeming to rely too much on that say than anything else.

Tom: Yep. It’s like we’re steadily going back in time. That sax-sample wasn’t quite a novelty genre, but it was pretty close.

Tim: It’s funny – take out that saxophone (which is admittedly perfectly decent enough) and it might improve the song. The way I see it, it mainly serves to takes the attention away from the (very good indeed) rest of it, and turns it into “just another sax-based dance track”.

Tom: Ah, see I’m not sure the rest of it works well enough on its own. The sax is, sadly, the only notable thing for me here.

Tim: A shame, especially since we’re now four years on from its heyday.

Sandra Lyng – Night After Night

“Just as you thought farmhouse music had backed away”

Tim: Nice country number? Track came out last year, but now we have a video, hooray!

Tim: Well, country that fairly swiftly veers into full on pumping dance territory, just as you thought farmhouse music had backed away a little bit. And it’s GOOD, isn’t it?

Tom: It is! Backed up with a video that took an obvious but nevertheless welcome twist. It is, however, the “good” of about two years ago — and that pre-chorus with its “blah blah blah” just doesn’t work for me.

Tim: See I like that – it’s the first indication you get that things are about to ramp up, and gets me nice and excited. It’s always nice when I can get fully on board with both aspects of a mixed-genre track (though admittedly it’s not as if the country bits are ever particularly gentle and mild), and here I am very much Zane Lowe-style ON BOARD. Great dance track, MORE LIKE IT PLEASE.