Galantis feat. Uffie – Spaceship

“It’s catchy! It’s well-composed! It’s not dull!”

Tim: Two albums down, and here’s some new music, accompanied by a video with a good few “woah, what did they just do?” moments.

Tim: Personally I feel that parkour peaked with that cold open from The Office, but it’s nice that it’s popping up every now and again just so the lazy amongst us can look at and think “that looks cool, I kind of wish I had the energy to do that”. But that’s not what we here to discuss – the music is. And fantastically, it’s still a good track!

Tom: It is! It’s catchy! It’s well-composed! It’s not dull!

Tim: Tell Me You Love Me was a nice return to form after a couple of iffy bits, and this seems to indicate we’re right back on top. We’ve all the energy that seemed missing from True Feeling, and a properly enjoyable chorus unlike what we had in Girls On Boys.

Tom: To be fair, there doesn’t actually appear to be anything other than a chorus anywhere. I know that’s Galantis’s shtick, but I do wonder if this’ll tire very quickly if there isn’t something to temper it a little. I was simultaneously enjoying it and wanting something different by the end.

Tim: All in all: very pleased with this, and I’m properly happy to be able to call myself a Proper Fan.

Saturday Flashback: Justice feat. Uffie – TThhEe PPaARRtTYY

“The musical equivalent of Vogon poetry.”

Tom: I should hate this song. I should absolutely despise it. Folks I know skip this track on the album, they say it’s the weak one: the vocal’s irritating, the rest of the track’s too slow. And yet. And yet. I must have hit play on this about twenty times today.

Tim: Hmm. Slightly selling it to me there, so I’ll bite.

Tim: Oh, man, I shouldn’t have bitten. Why do you like it?

Tom: I can’t explain why! Because the vocal is irritating. The rest of the track is too slow, particularly given all the other bangers that are on †. And it’s not even catchy: it doesn’t stay in my head after it’s stopped playing.

Tim: Well, it vaguely becomes listenable when the drums kick in and it’s not just a dull synth and an irritating voice, but…well, I don’t know if it’s the eighties-sounding synths that put the phrase in my head, but it struck me as the musical equivalent of Vogon poetry, and the more I hear the less unfair I think that is.

Tom: But I just keep hitting play.