Tim: So, how do you fancy a sort of rock/schlager blend?
Tom: What, like Goldschlager?
Tim: Oh, Christ.
Tom: Yeah, sorry, my puns have been disappointing lately.
Tom: The introduction kicked in, and I thought “well, that’s OK”. Then the second introduction kicked in, and I thought “that’s excellent”. The chorus is great, the verse not so much.
Tim: Well, in my view, this is pretty good all over. It’s not perfect – could probably do with cutting thirty seconds or so, and I’d prefer it didn’t have a fade-out ending – but these negative points are outweighed by the good, which include, well, the rest of it, really.
Tom: Agreed. It almost sounds like a rockier version of ABBA.
Tim: One of the nice things is the way the intro gives no clue as to the rest of the track – that bass line really doesn’t sound like much like the rest of it, which is poppier even though there’s still quite a lot of melancholiness there. The piano/guitar/other stuff instrumentation all goes along nicely, and the tone of the vocals is ever so slightly disturbing. And that’s a good thing, I think.