Darin – Nobody Knows

It’s good. It’s very good.

Tim: Every Darin track we (or certainly I) review will inevitably be compared to Lovekiller – it was big, it was exciting, it was fantastic, and it was actually pretty much the track that inspired the creation of this blog. So how does the lead single off his new album compare?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l9efZUVNKA

Tim: Hmm. It’s good. It’s very good. It’s more ravey than previously material, and it has a very similar ‘crank it up to seventeen right from the start’ vibe to it.

Tom: It cranks it up just late enough for it to count as some kind of ‘drop’ – but what a brilliant drop it is. I wish there was a bit more low-frequency bass oomph in there, but perhaps that’s just YouTube compression.

Tim: That first chorus is a closing section all in itself. But – and this is a fairly big but – this gets bored. It does a standard ‘drop down to very little’ in the middle eight, and comes back as it was.

Tom: See, I think you’re being too harsh on it. It’s not on maximum all the way through – you’ve missed at least the first verse, which is even quieter than the middle eight. It is, in short, bloody marvellous.

Tim: You’re right – I’m being unreasonably negative.

Tom: Yes you are.

Tim: If I knew nothing about Darin, or it was a different artist, I’d think: this is brilliant. The second half is as normal, with a quiet middle eight and big close, but the first half is amazingly better that it’s expected to be. And that is what this review should be, because this is a great song. It’s just – I can’t help but compare the two, and that annoys me.

Tom: This track makes me want to dance like an idiot. That’s about the highest praise I can give it.