Tim: Kati Wolf’s performing in London tonight which’ll be BRILLIANT, so here’s her current track, titled entirely atemporally for us as “It’s Summer!”
Tom: Well, hopefully it’ll do well in Australia.
Tom: That’s a baffling lyric video. You’ve taken a camera and pointed it at her, she’s just not singing. It’s like some kind of bizarre stock footage adventure.
Tim: She’s Hungarian, you may or may not recall, and this is a wonderfully happy track, isn’t it?
Tom: Much more positive than I expected, certainly.
Tim: Lyrically it doesn’t go much beyond the title in terms of themes, though there’s also a “you and me” element with the repeated “te meg én” about how we’ve just been together for a few hours but it feels GREAT. Because this is great, and happy and joyous.
Tom: And, finally, someone who’s followed the old maxim: “don’t bore us, get to the chorus”.
Tim: Starting out with the chorus is always risky because there’s a chance the listener will get bored partway through and wonder if the music will pick up any more at some point; here the answer is absolutely not – even after the middle eight, the final chorus is identical to the opening one.
Tom: Which is a great shame, because it’d be perfect for a key change.
Tim: It would, yes, but I don’t really feel it needs one, because it has a message to get across, about the seasons and how everything’s brilliant, and it does that very well. Very pleasant.