Tag: Hook n Sling

Hook N Sling feat. Digital Farm Animals – All Around Me

“PARP.”

Tim: Just a quickie for you this Friday.

Tom: Blimey.

Tim: We’ve met Hook N Sling before – they were the ones who teamed up with Galantis to bring us the phenomenal Love On Me. You complained back then that the lyrics were only four lines long; this one comes with a lyric video, because they’re quite a bit more complex.

Tim: Or not, who knows, but either way I think they should be applauded for spreading ‘is’ out into four syllables. It’s probably the music that’s meant to get us going here, and it is so, so very close to getting me going the same way that Love On Me did.

Tom: Yes. I can understand that. Two minutes long! And it’s not a Del Amitri two minutes either, it’s like they couldn’t be bothered to write the rest of it. As for why you’re not going, well, yet, it might get you dancing, except…

Tim: Except it doesn’t, because the otherwise flawless chorus melody gets interrupted by that horrible cranking noise that keeps popping up.

Tom: PARP.

Tim: …and so I can’t jump around happily for ages to forget or at least forgive the ludicrous amounts of repetition. Come on lads, try harder please.

Tom: PARP.

Galantis & Hook N Sling – Love On Me

“This song is just so…fun.”

Tim: TOM! I’m so happy, because guess what genre the best released song of last Friday ventures into?

Tom: Rather brilliantly, this has the full lyrics in the description of the YouTube video. They’re four lines long.

Tim: Yes, it’s not the most lyrically complex track around; doesn’t mean it’s not brilliant, though. Galantis have had a few tracks out since Peanut Butter Jelly, but none of them have got me in quite the same way that this does. Hook N Sling is a producer based in L.A.; I don’t know what he brings to the table, but regardless, this song is just so…fun.

Tom: I think this might be because it sounds like a lot of other fun songs. Nothing specific that I can pick out: it’s just like someone handed a CD of fun pop songs to an AI, gave it some steel drums, and went with whatever came out. Actually, in a few years someone will probably be able to do that.

Tim: And it may well sound better than a good number of the songs we hear. Ah, the future. But in the present, I can’t think of a better way to describe this than fun, really – I hear it, I want to dance. As I write this, it’s getting on for eleven p.m. and I have to be awake at half six, but I don’t care. The song’s been on repeat for fifteen minutes, and I don’t want to stop playing it. It’s got a great chorus, and an even better post-chorus.

Tom: That euphoric build out of the middle eight stands out to me: it’s straight out of the textbook. But then if it didn’t work, it wouldn’t be in the textbook.

Tim: That quick drum rhythm under “we’ll be singing”? YES WE WILL, AND DANCING.

Tom: Maybe you shouldn’t do these reviews so late at night.

Tim: No, best time, because I get emotional. For example, those steel drum tones almost brought tears of joy to my eyes. Man, imagine if I could drag this ludicrous idea out until Christmas.