Tim: We have featured Matilda precisely once before, and it was three and a bit years ago, so I won’t hold it against you if you’ve forgotten. She’s from Norway, and here’s her latest.
Tim: Quite nice, that, isn’t it?
Tom: The word that comes to mind is “lovely”. It feels a bit like it’s floating in time somewhere between 1985 and 2005.
Tim: Calm, gentle, synthy music; lyrics that are entirely lovely and wonderful and, not gonna lie, I can imagine getting me quite emotional if I were a few sheets to the wind; and a video that puts all that together very nicely.
Tom: I also want to give credit to the video director and camera op, for what is basically “two people hanging around in Santa Monica” that looks spectacular. There’s a few shots around 2:48 that are somehow exposed for both the sunset and the people simultaneously, which requires a very delicate touch and very expensive equipment: and yet it still “feels” almost like a home movie from the past.
Tim: This is a story of two people that have found each other and are feeling just wonderful, and I love that. Will it last? Who knows. Right now, everything’s perfect. Just perfect.