Tim: It’s been eighteen months, but we’ve finally got a second track from Matilda, and is exactly as happy and pleasant as the title would suggest.
Tom: It’s a bold choice to go with that vague “hey-a” sample any time after Enya, but hey, it seems to work. Happy and pleasant, though?
Tim: Well, kind of – it’s at least somewhat upward looking with it’s sense of maybe possibly this relationship could improve a bit, but the music at least is something I could listen to over and over again. Sure, it took a verse or so to actually get anywhere, but once it’s there it just keeps going, and by the end you genuinely are left with a true sense of optimism.
Tom: That is a good chorus, and that beat — I think it’s almost swing-time, or at least something close? — is something you don’t often hear in pop music. It works, although I’m not sure about that true sense of optimism: perhaps that’s from the absolutely gorgeous location she’s standing in the video, rather than the music itself. What do you get from it?
Tim: Overall? A feeling that yes, there is a wonderful place out there where everything will be lovely, and that we can all head there, and just hope this this time it isn’t underneath a carpark.
Tom: Callback humour. Nice.