Tom: Our regular reader Roger sends in this one. There’s a free festival in the Swedish town where he lives; Beatrice Eli performed and, in his words: “this was my biggest surprise!”
Tom: Hmm. Well, I can be charitable and say “it’s not to my taste”.
Tim: Fair enough. Care to elaborate?
Tom: Bit too slow, bit too dark: those would be OK if it went somewhere, but it really doesn’t. What do you reckon?
Tim: Well, the verses leave me cold – I wasn’t really getting anything much until the chorus, but that I actually rather liked. My main problem is the middle eight, which is just a bit dull – if that was livened up a bit to match the chorus slightly, or just given a little bit of variation, I’d be all for this. As it is, well, five out of ten. Not bad, could do better.