Tom: A title that sounds like a euphemism for being caught short. This bodes well.
Tim: Debut track off Ester, hailing from Uppsala in Sweden, and it gave me an “ooh” on it’s first note, and then an “ohh” 54 seconds later.
Tim: Because eesh, that autotune isn’t pleasant.
Tom: Are you sure? I don’t hear it! Which is weird, because normally I’m the one bitterly complaining about it. This sounds pretty natural to me.
Tim: Seriously? I don’t know, maybe it’s not that, then, but those extended notes really do sound a bit unpleasant. The rest of it? Lovely, great. The music’s excellent, never going down from that first “ooh”, and it’ll be some time before I hear a better instrumental middle eight.
Tom: And that pre-chorus is just fantastic: one of the best I’ve heard this year so far.
Tim: The melody, the verses – all fine. But damn, those vocals in the chorus – whatever the reason for it is, there’s something about it that just doesn’t sit right with me.
Tom: I still don’t notice it. But I did notice those bloody awful “I’m a Swede” lyrics, which… no. Just no.
Tim: OHHH, this is so nearly a great great track, and yet the bulk of what I’m writing about it is negative, and I don’t like it. DAMN YOU ESTER.