Tim: Ola Salo, frontman of The Ark.
Tom: Him off the 2007 Swedish Eurovision entry! Good start.
Tim: Also Kleerup, a producer who we’ve not featured previously. Together, the official Stockholm Pride 2014 song.
Tim: It starts out as a bit of a racket, but soon becomes really very good indeed.
Tom: Bit of a racket? That’s a brilliant start: it’s got a bit of late-90s-Matrix-electronica about it, and I’d say it’s a damn sight better than that first verse.
Tim: Well yes, because if I’m be honest: the verses somewhat washed over me, partly because there’s not much to them and partly because whilst trying to listen to it I got distracted and started trying to find somewhere I could buy this GLORIOUS cover of Let It Go.
Tom: It is a good cover. But let me guess…
Tim: Regardless of how distracted I got, that chorus kept permeating my brain, because it’s just great.
Tom: Agreed. That is everything you want from a chorus in a song like this: the melody line is gorgeous, and the rest of the instrumentation — and that voice — back it up well.
Tim: Great in itself, and great as a message for a Pride festival. It’s raucous, it’s powerful, it’s a clear statement, and it’s just marvellous.