Tim: Every time I hear one of Madeon’s tracks I am astonished that he’s basically still a toddler. Well, eighteen, but still it’s bloody ridiculous.
Tom: I’ve said it before: we’re getting old, Tim.
Tim: Oh no, it’s not an age thing on my part – it’s just, 18. He’s incredibly (and annoyingly) talented.
Tim: It’s a bit lighter than Finale, which is good because it’s probably more radio-friendly and slightly more mainstream, but bad because I ended up quite liking the general in-your-facedness of that one in the end. But still, it’s still a fantastic dance tune, and very clearly shows off his claimed Daft Punk influences.*
Tom: There is a lot of Daft Punk in this track, isn’t there? (I mean that in a good way.) But it’s all got that trademark Madeon synth sound – the particular combination of settings that no-one’s going to be able to use for years because they’ll just sound like him. That’s a high honour for any electronic music producer.
Tim: Not sure what to say about it, really, other than it makes me want to dance. A lot. And in a proper way, not in the way that Cartoon Heroes makes me want to dance. There are very few tracks I can say that about, so well done to him for that.
Tom: I could do some complaining about how much dynamic compression there is – how everything seems to dip in volume around each hit of the main drums – but that’d be churlish for such a wall-of-sound track.
Tim: On a final note, vocals come from Zak Waters, an American electropop singer who’s got a really rather quite good single of his own out right now, so you could check that out as well. Fun but disappointingly blurry video, there.