Tim: FRIDAY, so let’s drop into The Lola O’s nonstop party for a few minutes, turn the volume up loud and see if we like what we hear.
Tom: Well, that intro sounds like any 2000s pop-punk song. I was hoping it’d become more shouty than it did — but surprisingly, I enjoyed the time it took to get there.
Tim: Good, good – then in the end we have our loud and raucous vocals, yep; trumpets to get everything off to a good start, yep; being very very insistent that they are indeed TwentyfourSevenPartypeople just like that one person you always get a party encouraging everyone to do stupid stuff, also yep.
Tom: Is that really loud and raucous, though? It’s melodic. The volume’s not enough to count as loud and the music’s too tuneful to be raucous.
Tim: Hmm, I’d just about call it that. It is easy to make tracks like this too shouty and annoying – for me the border’s roughly just a tiny bit further than Icona Pop – but this fits just great.
Tom: As with so many things we review, Tim, you’re just more enthusiastic than me. For me, this falls into a twilight zone between “not shouty” and “shouty”, and I don’t think it can rescue itself.
Tim: I disagree – for one, that chorus is just excellent – the “we got loads of trouble” with the strong continuous beat underneath, and then the second half with the trumpet back again for all the triumph. Great stuff, love it.