Tim: New one off Sweden’s Sophia, who’s been away for a while but has now returned with a song about if you look at her up close you’ll see that she is blue (presumably metaphorically so, but you never can tell really).
Tom: With a blue little window, and a blue Corvette, and everything is…
Tom: …oh. No, then. Never mind.
Tim: Sorry, no. Let’s delve deep: when there’s no light she’s like a bottomless abyss of an ocean, which really is very dark indeed, but when you get closer and see her in the light she is in fact klein blue (which is an actual colour, taken from a very interesting and not at all pointless painting).
Tom: Don’t you sass International Klein Blue! That’s someone who can successfully invent, and then name, a colour — specifically one that’s difficult to reproduce — after themselves. That’s a skill, and, yes it makes this a slightly wonky metaphor for a song, but it’s better than a lot we hear here.
Tim: Oh, fine. Slightly wonky metaphors aside, though, that’s a pretty good song, isn’t it? Bit loud, bit raucous, and mostly a brilliant chorus, doing justice to her insistence that people just need to LOOK AT HER, DAMMIT. Well, I’m not bothered whether people do look at her or not, but I do hope peopler hear her, because I’d like more of this.
Tom: It’s not bad, is it? Not going on regular rotation for me — a bit too dark and introspective for my tastes — but I can see the appeal.
Tim: EP’s out in February, so let’s wait and see.