Nadine Coyle – Go To Work

“I am genuinely gutted.”

Tim: Brought to our attention by ‘Axmay’, who describes it as “current, but feels very 90’s house in a sense”. Interested? I was.

Tim: It is, really, very sad that this has had so little attention or success – 57 on the sales chart, and no entry whatsoever into the full combined one – because it’s superb.

Tom: I can see the 90s house connection with those synth patches, and I think that’s what might have killed it — it’s not a contemporary sound, and I can’t see this getting played in many places. Some people and some tracks can pull off retro, but this… doesn’t, somehow.

Tim: See, I love it for that, and although you’re maybe right about it not being played in a lot of places, I can still see it being very successful if it was. It’s produced with Xenomania, the team behind so many wonderful hits, including basically all of Girls Aloud’s hits, and it really does sound like a mix of 90s house and modern day music, and if there’s any justice in the world this’d be all over the place. But no.

Tom: I should add that I’m irritated by that slightly offbeat transition into the chorus. I’m sure I’d get used to it, but you don’t want to mislead people every time there should be a drop. You’re probably right that it deserved more than….

Tim: Nothing at all, and I am genuinely gutted about that.