John de Sohn – Hum With Me

“Hum with me? What?”

Tom: I am very skeptical of that title. Hum with me? What?

Tim: I still think back occasionally to the first track of John’s we featured – might be something to do with the video, I think – and remember how several years later it’s still a very good track, and how he hasn’t actually put out a duff one yet. Try this, for example, with all of its tropical fruity goodness (I’m okay with it now, it’s the summer).

Tom: Well, that’s the first duff one. Isn’t it?

Tim: Still not a duff one, though I would say it’s not one of his best. It’s funny – the post-chorus dance bit should be the biggest part of the song, the one that really wants to make me jump up and start thrashing my limbs around, but there seems to be instead a sudden collapse in momentum.

Tom: Yep. I actually let out an ‘urrrrrgh’ sound out loud. that’s one of the most disappointing choruses I’ve heard. Ruins the whole song for me.

Tim: It goes from flowing notes gradually amping up to a staccato top line, with even the drumbeats taking a while to come back in. The rest of it is great, and it’d all be great if it just kept up the movement – but it doesn’t. It’s ridiculous.

Tom: Also — and I realise this is the point of the song — the humming gets really annoying.

Tim: I don’t know, I don’t find the humming so bad – certainly not bad enough to let the song be ruined – but I don’t think I’d quite classify it as duff.