JRL – No Way

“Started calm, and then got…very, very good, almost without me realising it.”

Tim: New trio of Swedish producers, and you might think from the name they’ve chosen that it’d be their initials, to which I say: mostly. We have Jonathan, Lemar and, erm, Carl. Go figure.

Tim: Started calm, and then got…very, very good, almost without me realising it.

Tom: You’re right: that is a really, really good chorus.

Tim: It started as would any generic slightly tropical dance track, the first chorus was pretty good, and then I got interested in the video so slightly tuned out but then it came towards the end and I realised ‘hang on, this is great’. I don’t even really mind that it’s got the whole ‘two verses, two choruses, that’s all we need’ thing going on, because there’s enough different sections in this two halves that actually it’s not boring.

Tom: I mean, you say that, the verse isn’t up to much. I’d expect this to sit in the middle of a generic Spotify playlist. That, as ever, sounds harsher than I intended it: this does a lot right, but it’s not the BANGER that it seems to be aiming for.

Tim: Well, there’s variety, and so I’m happy and dancing throughout. Nice one.