Tim: New one off Jeppo —
Tom: That’s a terrible nickname, she’s not a Marx brother.
Tim: Duly noted — and it’s the third of the excellent and undervalued E•MO•TION album, and it’s a wonderfully melancholic banger.
Tom: I used to know a girl like… never mind.
Tim: Ain’t it brilliant?
Tom: It is! You know that sound that all the 1980s-retro one-man production teams are going for? This is how you pull it off when you have a massive budget and many, many crew.
Tim: We’ve got the eternally reliable pairing of Carl Falk and Rami Yacoub for the writing and production, and it really, really shows. I’m not sure what’s going on with the video – the narrator would appear to be on glue, because I’ve not a clue how this could remotely relate to Cinderella – but it’s got enough neon lighting in it that I can entirely live with it.
In any case, when the song’s this good it doesn’t matter what’s going on in the video, because I love it.
The sublime blend of melancholy in the lyrics but the upbeat tones of the song works so well, so it’s perfect for every mood, and basically I’ve played it five times on loop now, and it’s just coming to an end, and yet I’m about to push play all over again.
Tom: It’s an unrequited love song: there’s plenty of them around, but they’re rarely pulled off this well.
Tim: IT’S JUST THAT GOOD.