Tom: You know how many movie pitches are meant to be one-line combinations of existing movies? “Die Hard on an airplane with the President”, for example. Well, how does “a bit like Hurts if Lily Allen was their vocalist” sound to you?
Tim: Interesting, and intriguing.
Tom: Now, you’re probably going to complain that this is a bit overlong – and perhaps it is – but I think if that percussion had kicked in earlier it wouldn’t have had quite the effect it did.
Tim: I won’t complain that it’s too long; I will say that if it’s that long it does need to get going at some point. I disagree about kicking in earlier – as far as I’m concerned, 2:45 is way, way too for a drop to hit, even if the track had been slowly building up to it since the start. And if we’re keeping it that late, it really should be worth it, and it wasn’t.
Tom: For whatever reason, I was able to stick with the simple, slow version of the track for long enough that the steady build surprised me: and while it’s not going to be a dance track any time soon, it’s a pretty good piece of melancholy pop along the same lines as Hurts.
Tim: There, I think you’re doing them a great disservice. I don’t want to say this is boring, because it isn’t, but it just, and I’m aware I’m repeating myself, takes too long to do anything. A bit louder, speed up the first ninety seconds, maybe even two minutes, and you might be approaching that level, but as it is, it just strikes me as a bit tedious.
Tom: She has more uptempo tracks on the EP too, and they’re not bad too – particularly the percussion-heavy chorus – but this is the one that’s stuck in my head.
Tim: Ah, now that track, I like a lot. This one, though, no way.