Tim: I have a thing with rock bands. Basically, I can cope with their music being a bit of a racket, as long the chorus is epic enough, or at least has a decent, generally quite drawn-out, hook to it.
Tom: Crikey. There’s a reason we don’t normally review rock music, folks, and that’s it.
Tim: Kings and Queens, for example – utterly fantastic track. And now there’s this (a fan-made lyric video, by the way – the official seven minute one is full of all sorts of guff).
Tom: I want to go to Iceland now. Disappointingly, though, it won’t have a soundtrack like that.
Tim: So, my question is this: is this chorus big and bold enough that it outweighs the fair racket that is the rest of the song?
Tom: I disagree with your basic premise there. That’s not a racket – the song’s great! And that chorus, in particular. But does that big, bold chorus enough for you?
Tim: I think it just about is, though inevitably if I wake up to it on the radio I’ll think ‘oh, God, can’t we have something a bit calmer’. It’s quite a short chorus, and I wouldn’t mind a bit more, and I can’t quite see it ever rising to Kings and Queens levels, but I think it’s alright. Just about.
Tom: Speak for yourself. I think it’s marvellous.