Tom: You’re kidding me.
Tim: Oh no. It’s an interesting choice for a band’s debut release to be a Christmas EP, but this Swedish band are going for it, with a cover of a brutally overshadowed song from Frozen.
Tom: Hmm. I was going to say “that’s unnecessary” based on the first verse — it sounded almost like it was being sung by a robot, all perfectly in time. But by the second verse, I was starting to get what they were doing.
Tim: Joey from the band has said that ‘when I first heard the song, I immediately thought that it was a perfect pop song’, and with this treatment they’ve given it it’s hard to argue otherwise. Musically it’s a hell of a deviation from the original, though the general theme still makes itself clear, with a decent level of pleading still there. In short: this is great.
Tom: Apart from that ending. What’s going on with that odd fadeout?
Tim: Annoyingly, something that comes across from the original – sometimes the chorus is followed by a glum “okay bye”, but other times, particularly at the end, it’s just left fading. Anyway, much like Kylie’s, this’ll never be a Christmas anthem, but it’s not trying to be: it just wants to be a bit of fun, and it really is.
Tom: Ah, if it’s fun you want, I’ve got you sorted.