Tim: DROP.
Tom: That’s one of the best first verses I’ve heard in a while. Astonishing voice, good melody, steady build with the guitar.
Tim: I don’t mean this in quite as harsh a manner as it’ll sound, but I’d sort of forgotten I was meant to be paying attention to this track by about ten seconds in, though maybe I’m just in a distractable state of mind right now.
Tom: It’s the opposite for me, oddly enough: this caught my attention right from the start. That’s unusual for me.
Tim: Regardless, that chorus sure as hell brought the song right back to the forefront, and right now I’m having trouble thinking of a track that has such a massive disparity between pre- and post-drop volumes. Certainly demonstrates powerful singing capabilities, which is always handy in a debut single, and with its big emotional hook it’ll fit nicely as a song to play over the closing scenes of a TV episode, where you get tender feelings and heavy drama all being interwoven.
Tom: That seems a bit harsh: it’s a good song on its own, both verse and chorus. There aren’t many pop songs you can say that for.
Tim: Not sure why that example came to me, but there it is. It’s certainly not meant to be harsh, because it works, for me anyway.