Tom: Last time, as you’ll recall, she produced the most irritating record since the Fast Food Rockers. This time, she…
Tom: …sounds a bit like M.I.A.?
Tim: Her hairstyle makes it look like she’s had a close encounter with a lightsaber.
Tom: I mean, I’m stunned. It sounds good. It’s not irritating. It’s like she’s grown up and produced a decent second album, all in the space of a couple of months.
Tim: It is strange, because you’re right, this is quite listenable. Still not great, and if she wants to sound like M.I.A. she does still need the requisite weird sound effects replacing random words.
Tom: Mike Posner, as ever, appears to be a smug dick – but at least his contribution is brief. Does he have a sweater tucked into his trousers? Is he, in fact, Gyles Brandreth in disguise?
Tim: I don’t know, but I’d quite like to see him in Dictionary Corner. Don’t know why, though – just a weird image in my mind, really.
Tom: So here’s my question: is this actually good, or was the bar set so low that anything even half-decent, or quarter-decent, would impress me?
Tim: Both, I reckon. Although the da-da-da-da-dum-dum thing is a really crap ending.